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I'm running Ubuntu x64 server 10.04 on a virtual slice and want to get rid of the lines in bold (and the blank line) below:

$ ssh user@server
Linux jm 2.6.32.12-rscloud #26 SMP Mon May 17 12:35:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Welcome to Ubuntu!
 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Mon Oct 11 04:42:07 2010 from xx.xx.xx.xx
$

Answer 1

Remove or comment the following line in your /etc/pam.d/sshd:

# Print the message of the day upon successful login.
session    optional     pam_motd.so