"Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications" shown every time I log on!

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:20:32 -0500, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 1:41?AM Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>Try to locate the script or file that is responsible for the message,
>and remove the execute bit. That's how to disable individual pieces of
>those login messages.
>
>$ sudo find /etc -name '*motd*'
>/etc/default/motd-news.wasremoved
>/etc/update-motd.d
>/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
>/etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/motd-news.timer
>
># No execute, it does not contribute to the message
>$ ls -Al /etc/default/motd-news.wasremoved
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 25  2022 /etc/default/motd-news.wasremoved
>
># Execute, it does contribute to the message
>$ ls -Al /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5023 Aug 17  2020 /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
>
>I don't receive the message, so I am not sure which file or script to disable.

Thanks,
I have looked at the various scripts in /etc/update-motd.d and removed the
executable switch on these:

sudo chmod -x 88-esm-announce
sudo chmod -x 50-motd-news
sudo chmod -x 91-contract-ua-esm-status

This reduced the welcome screen to this on my home server:

-----------------------------
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-89-generic x86_64)

  System information as of Fri 10 Mar 2023 09:50:48 AM CET

  System load:    0.0                 Users logged in:       1
  Usage of /home: 79.8% of 258.81GB   IPv4 address for eth0: 192.168.119.216
  Memory usage:   10%                 IPv4 address for tun0: 10.8.139.1
  Swap usage:     3%                  IPv4 address for tun1: 10.8.0.1
  Processes:      270

1 device has a firmware upgrade available.
Run `fwupdmgr get-upgrades` for more information.


Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled.

0 updates can be applied immediately.

27 additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps.
Learn more about enabling ESM Apps service at https://ubuntu.com/esm

New release '22.04.2 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.


*** System restart required ***
Last login: Fri Mar 10 09:44:59 2023 from 192.168.119.136
--------------------------------

Now the delay is removed and some items gone but there is till a message about
ESM...

"Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled."

And embedded in this, which I think is some part of the apt update check:

"27 additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps.
Learn more about enabling ESM Apps service at https://ubuntu.com/es"

But if I remove the x switch:
sudo chmod -x 90-updates-available

then there are no longer any reminders of the normal updates situation...
I don't want to lose these.
So I put it back on, hopefully there is something one can do with this script
itself?

Anyway, now the actual ad is gone and with it the delay, the screen shows almost
instantly!

I tested the same on a more remote similar server but here the start delay is
still there even though the actions taken are the same and the Ubuntu version is
the same...

Thanks again for the advice, getting closer!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden