motd being printed only on debian squeeze boxes about parallel-ssh

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Have same issue on AIX box running openssh with latest pssh: pssh-2.3-1

[root@host:] pssh -H server -t 10 -i "uptime"
[1] 09:46:49 [SUCCESS] server
  09:46AM   up 29 days,  14:34,  2 users,  load average: 0.38, 0.41, 0.45


[root@host:] pssh -H server -t 10 --inline-stdout -I         
uptime
[1] 09:47:27 [SUCCESS] server
****************************************************************************
*       Welcome to AIX version 6.1!                        *
****************************************************************************
[YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
  09:47AM   up 29 days,  14:35,  2 users,  load average: 0.54, 0.46, 0.46

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jul 2013 at 7:51

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The motd is probably caused by something in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. 
That's my guess, anyway. I'm sure that pssh isn't creating it, so it's 
definitely something in ssh.

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Jul 2013 at 4:45

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thanks for the answer, you are right the PrintMotd option is the problem.
On the current environment I am unable to disable that. 

Is there any possibility to create a option that would create a .hushlogin file 
before the interactive connection? 

I don't want to create a .hushlogin file permanently just for a run of some 
scripts / checks. 

E.g. 

pssh -I --hush would first run in -i checking if there is a ~/.hushlogin and 
generating ~/.hushlogin file if not (preferably with some note that it was done 
from pssh) after that it would run in the -I option, on the end it would go 
again to -i and removing the ~/.hushlogin files that it generated. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Jul 2013 at 8:36

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I think that's really outside the scope of what pssh can or should do.

One other idea you might try is to add the following options to pssh: -x "-T"

This will make pssh pass the "-T" option to ssh, which might possibly help 
(though I'm really not sure).

Original comment by [email protected] on 19 Jul 2013 at 4:26