Ubuntu 20.04 Server motd News deaktivieren

Ubuntu 20.04 zeigt beim Anmelden über SSH in der motd (message of the day) Neuigkeiten an die es von einer Canoncial Webseite ( https://motd.ubuntu.com ) bezieht – nachfolgend in rot dargestellt

$ ssh user@server
Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519':
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.x.x-xx-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Thu Jun 11 08:03:47 UTC 2020

  System load:             0.04
  Usage of /:              0.6% of 1.79TB
  Memory usage:            5%
  Swap usage:              0%
  Temperature:             39.0 C
  Processes:               206
  Users logged in:         0
  IPv4 address for enp6s0: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  IPv6 address for enp6s0: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

 * MicroK8s gets a native Windows installer and command-line integration.

     https://ubuntu.com/blog/microk8s-installers-windows-and-macos

0 updates can be installed immediately.
0 of these updates are security updates.


Last login: Thu Jun 11 07:50:12 2020 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Mich stören diese Meldungen. Um sie abzustellen muss in der Datei /etc/default/motd-news folgendes angepasst werden:

[...]
ENABLED=0
[...]

Nun werden die News beim erneuten Anmelden nicht mehr angezeigt.

ssh user@server        
Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519': 
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.x.x-xx-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Thu Jun 11 08:07:28 UTC 2020

  System load:             0.07
  Usage of /:              0.6% of 1.79TB
  Memory usage:            4%
  Swap usage:              0%
  Temperature:             37.0 C
  Processes:               206
  Users logged in:         1
  IPv4 address for enp6s0: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  IPv6 address for enp6s0: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

0 updates can be installed immediately.
0 of these updates are security updates.


Last login: Thu Jun 11 08:03:47 2020 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx