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Add Welcome Message to Your Mac [Terminal]

In your Mac login window, you can add a welcome message right below the Apple and System Status. You only need to perform this following command line:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "Hi, I am Mac"

Characters inside double quote will be displayed as your welcome message. I know you will try this and I also know that you will want to delete it as soon as you've finished trying. So, here is the command line to delete your Mac welcome message:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText ""

Someday, you can consider putting your username and password as the welcome message. No one will know, except me, you and other readers of UsingMac.com.

If you're geek enough to read until the rest of this entry, you will also find two articles interesting:

  1. Customize the Mac OS X Login Screen from osxdaily.com
  2. 5 Login Window Tips from macosxtips.co.uk

Categories: UNIX, Open Source
Tags: Geek, Message, Terminal, Welcome

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