On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:38:34PM -0700, yack wrote: > denied login, so i modified pam_motd to work > in "account" section, but i can't get the > message to be printed. First of all, wrong list. You want the linux-pam or some other pam list. To answer your question, only the auth module can show messages to the user. /fc