Sebster7

FWIW, I don't think we should always disable pam MOTD: I think it's useful information that helps to harden the system on Ubuntu for example, by telling you how many...

Current workaround is to revert to an earlier backup of the sshd file in /etc/pam.d on the box the playbook has run on.

Edited my OP to escape the \< and \>