How to change pre-login banner???

Jim Ertle ertle at newton.uvm.edu
Sat Jan 5 06:14:21 AEST 1991


In <1085 at pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca> tmoore at pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca (Tom Moore) writes:

>How do I change the banner that is printed by 'getty' 
>before a users logs in?  Currently, getty prints 
>the following:

>SunOS UNIX (node)

>login:

>Note that this is not the motd banner that gets printed
>after a user logs in.  That one seems to be easy enough
>to change.


I think that what Tom wants is the default line in /etc/gettytab.
This contains thi info that all ttys print out for a login.  You can
change this for all of them by changing default, or you can change it
for specific types of logins.


					Jim Ertle



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