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How to remove welcome message after SSH login in Ubuntu

For all users

empty the file /etc/motd

echo |sudo tee /etc/motd

and disable all the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/

sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/*

For specific user

touch an empty file named .hushlogin in the user’s home directory.

touch ~/.hushlogin

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