How to Make Ascii Art Login Banner If you are interested in making something like the above, follow these steps. Use an online ascii art generator to create your desired art and copy all of the characters to the clipboard. http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ Create a file and paste in the characters copied above and save the file. Now run the following command and replace filename with the name of the file you created in the previous step. This will generate your login script. ex.: echo '#!/bin/bash'; while IFS= read -r line; do echo "echo '$line'"; done < filename > mymotd.sh Now copy mymotd.sh to /etc/profile.d and make it executable. sudo cp mymotd.sh /etc/profile.d/ sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/mymotd.sh Now when you log in, you will see the banner in your terminal. You can modify this file anyway you like.