How to add a cool ASCII art to your linux vps when you login to ssh

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How to add a cool ASCII art to your linux vps when you login to ssh - humanpuff69 - 06-08-2017

hi guys
today i will show you how to add cool ascii text when you login to ssh

so basically when you login to your ssh this will appear
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so lets just go to the tutorial

1.what you need to do is make your own ascii text . make sure it is less than 80 collumn . you can get it from this site --> http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

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2.now you can create your own ascii art with text . you can choose any combination of text and font but you need to make sure it less than 80 collumn to show properly

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3.after you create it copy the whole thing and go to your ssh client . i use putty

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4.you need to edit the motd file . by using "sudo nano /etc/motd"

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5.now just right click or copy the text from the ascii generator and save

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6.to see the result you can type "cat /etc/motd" or relogin to your ssh

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hopefully this tutorial is useful . it can be used to diffrenciate your vps and other

Code:
if it says nano command not found you need to install nano by typing

Ubuntu / debian and any linux that use apt get : sudo apt-get install nano

Centos / redhat based : yum install nano

RE: How to add a cool ASCII art to your linux vps when you login to ssh - Dynamo - 06-08-2017

Don't forget to hide your VPS IP

Nice text to code converting site, I was doing that manually till now lol.