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When you login to an Ubuntu server using SSH, you get welcome message like
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://backend.serverok.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ubuntu-ssh-motd.png" alt="Ubuntu welcome message" width="804" height="598" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4383" srcset="https://backend.serverok.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ubuntu-ssh-motd.png 804w, https://backend.serverok.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ubuntu-ssh-motd-300x223.png 300w, https://backend.serverok.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ubuntu-ssh-motd-768x571.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px" />
On most Linux systems, this is generated by /etc/motd. On Ubuntu, MOTD (message of the day) generated dynamically with some scripts. I don&#8217;t want to see all the marketing message from Ubuntu everyday.
To disable MOTD on Ubuntu, just delete the scripts from /etc/update-motd.d/
<pre>
rm -f /etc/update-motd.d/*
</pre>
If you want a differnt motd, you can put a shell script in this folder.
<h2>Method 2</h2>
Another way to disable motd is by disabling pam_motd.so module.
Edit files
<pre>
/etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/sshd
</pre>
Comment out the lines related to pam_motd.so
<pre>
session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic
session optional pam_motd.so noupdate
</pre>

Ubuntu remove SSH welcome message

Method 2