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How can I change the welcome message I see when I login on a preinstalled LAMP Droplet?

Posted on December 16, 2013

WELCOME TO DIGITALOCEAN’S BETA LAMP STACK

Please be sure to change your root MySQL password; current MySQL password is “pa ssword”

You can change the MySQL password with the following command:

mysqladmin -u root -p’password’ password newpassword



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To get rid of this message use the following command <br> <br>sudo nano /etc/motd.tail <br> <br>or <br> <br>sudo vi /etc/motd.tail <br> <br>Then edit the file and save and exit. <br> <br> <br>Thanks to Russel Mitchell from DO’s support team for find this answer!

I tried this on CentOS but does not work :(

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