"Web console" Login Welcome Message

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∟"Web console" Login Welcome Message

This section provides a tutorial example on how to remove the 'Web console' Cockpit message displayed after logging in to a CentOS 8 system.

When logging in to a CentOS 8 system, you will get "Web console" message as part of the welcome message. This is because CentOS 8 has included Cockpit, the Web Console, as part of the system installation.

By default, Cockpit is installed and disabled on the system. So when logging in, you will see the "Activate the web console with ..." message. It is to remind you that Cockpit Web console is not activated yet.

herong>ssh herong@192.168.1.100
herong@192.168.1.100's password: TopSecret

Activate the web console with: systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

After you have enabled and started "cockpit" and "cockpit.socket" services, you will see the "Web console <url>..." message. It is to remind you that Cockpit Web console can be accessed with a Web browser at those URLs.

herong>ssh herong@192.168.1.100
herong@192.168.1.100's password: TopSecret

Web console: https://localhost:9090/ or https://192.168.1.100:9090/

Since this "Web console" welcome message is displayed for all users on your CentOS 8 system, it could cause confusions to regular users, who are not encouraged to use Cockpit.

If you want to hide this "Web console" welcome message, you can do the following to replace Cockpit MOTD (Message Of The Day) file with an empty file.

herong$ sudo ls -l /etc/motd.d
  lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17  cockpit -> /run/cockpit/motd

herong]$ sudo ls -l /run/cockpit
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 69 active.motd
  lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 motd -> active.motd

herong$ sudo more /run/cockpit/active.motd
  Web console: https://localhost:9090/ or https://192.168.1.100:9090/

herong$ sudo mv /run/cockpit/motd /run/cockpit/motd-bck

herong$ sudo touch /run/cockpit/motd