Instances running Ubuntu Trusty (tools-trusty as bastion and tools-exec-12 as execution node) do not show the Tools motd banners:
[tim@passepartout ~]$ ssh -o ControlPath=none trusty.tools.wmflabs.org If you are having access problems, please see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access#Accessing_public_and_private_instances Last login: Thu Dec 25 08:39:59 2014 from e177164030.adsl.alicedsl.de scfc@tools-trusty:~$ Abgemeldet Connection to trusty.tools.wmflabs.org closed. [tim@passepartout ~]$ ssh -o 'ControlPath none' trusty.tools.wmflabs.org If you are having access problems, please see: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access#Accessing_public_and_private_instances Last login: Thu Dec 25 11:23:39 2014 from e177164030.adsl.alicedsl.de scfc@tools-trusty:~$ Abgemeldet Connection to trusty.tools.wmflabs.org closed. [tim@passepartout ~]$ ssh -o 'ControlPath none' tools-exec-12.eqiad.wmflabs Last login: Thu Aug 21 19:19:32 2014 from bastion1.eqiad.wmflabs scfc@tools-exec-12:~$ Abgemeldet Connection to tools-exec-12.eqiad.wmflabs closed. [tim@passepartout ~]$