The strange thing being, you get the MOTD when doing password authentication, but you don't get it when you do publickey authentication. Can you still reproduce that, and if yes, could you attach your /etc/ssh/sshd_config ?
The strange thing being, you get the MOTD when doing password authentication, but you don't get it when you do publickey authentication. Can you still reproduce that, and if yes, could you attach your /etc/ssh/ sshd_config ?