linux-login-message-banner-issue-motd
nano /etc/issue
nano /etc/motd
UBUNTU DEFAULT
sudo aptitude install update-motd
update-motd package creates a directory, /etc/update-motd.d installs a cronjob, /etc/cron.d/update-motd which calls /usr/sbin/update-motd every 10 minutes (by default)
You can add a dynamic script
chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/11-mystats
You can edit to comment out items from /etc/update-motd.d/ to show less...
(The motd job can be called/run manually with /usr/bin/update-motd ?)
/etc/ssh/sshd_config (contains PrintLastLog no which can be uncommented to prevent "lastlogin")