How to change pre-login banner???

Robert Felps felps at convex.com
Sat Jan 5 03:11:44 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.

Do a man on gettytab.

$ man 5 gettytab

You need to edit /etc/gettytab and change the im= field on the appropriate
definition. The %h can be used to set the node.

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