Add figurine

Author: binarypatrick

_posts/2023-12-18-adding-figurine-to-login.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: "Adding a Figurine Login Message"
+date: 2023-12-18 00:00:00 -0400
+category: "General"
+tags: ["linux", "login", "ssh"]
+---
+
+I saw a very interesting video by [Alex Kretzschmar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPQ6k2GR17I) about how to add a nice colorful login banner using Figurine that displays the hostname. I thought this would be helpful when working with several SSH sessions, so I added it to my hosts.
+
+![Login example of figurine displaying the hostname](../assets/img/adding-figurine-login-message/login-example.png)
+
+To start you need to download and install Figurine.
+
+```bash
+wget https://github.com/arsham/figurine/releases/download/v1.3.0/figurine_linux_amd64_v1.3.0.tar.gz -O deploy.tar.gz
+tar -xvf deploy.tar.gz
+sudo mv deploy/figurine /usr/local/bin
+```
+
+Once it's installed you can test it by running the following
+
+```bash
+figurine -f "3d.flf" `hostname`
+```
+
+Now you can create the profile script that will run on login.
+
+```bash
+sudo nano /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh
+```
+
+```text
+echo ""
+figurine -f "3d.flf" `hostname`
+echo ""
+```
+
+You can test the file by running it manually.
+
+```bash
+sh /etc/profile.d/figurine.sh
+```
+
+Now that the file is created, exit and ssh back in to test it. Also don't forget to cleanup the download and unpacked files.
+
+```bash
+rm -rf deploy*
+```