Show ASCII Text welcome message when login with SSH

Create ASCII Text

Using ASCII Text generator like: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=testall&f=Standard

A. Show same text for all users

first copy the text from the above generator and paste it to: /etc/motd

B. Show different message per user

  1. copy the ASCII text to any custom directory, for instance: `/var/motd/

  2. Edit the login script to show the above ASCII TEXT

Add the following line to /etc/bashrc:

test -e /var/motd/$LOGNAME && cat /var/motd/$LOGNAME

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