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Adding a Security Message to the RHEL 5 Login Window

What are the steps to configure the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 login screen to display a large paragraph of text?

Background Information: The text is a security alert that is required for the company I work for to present to all users prior to their login. They must be able to read the text before logging in.

We are using GDM and do not read / etc / issue by default. I've placed a copy of the text in the [greeter] section of /etc/gdm/custom.conf. The problem is the text is displayed on one line and runs off the screen.

Is there a way to present the entire paragraph in plain text without resorting to using a rendered background image of the text, like the DOE employee did?

Example using image: http://cc.jlab.org/docs/security/banners/linux-graphical-banner.html

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Place the text in a file and point the InfoMsgFile to the file.



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InfoMsgFile=/etc/motd
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