On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:37 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com> wrote:
I ssh into my fedora 28 system at work, I get this printed
when I login:

zooty> ssh -l tweety tomh8022
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/etc/motd printed here
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Last login: Wed Jul 11 20:21:39 2018 from 127.0.0.1
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/etc/motd printed yet again here
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tomh>

Whyfor is it now printing /etc/motd twice?

FWIW, you can usually get more information by throwing on the verbose flag, -v a few times, like `ssh -vvv ...`

I suspect you have somewhere in your sshd configuration a line like:

Banner /etc/motd