getty/uugetty -- what is the difference, really?

IT Manager jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Wed May 1 01:56:59 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr17.130247.13241 at virtech.uucp>, cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> 
> uugetty is getty with 1 enhancement:
> 	1. it locks (using uucp/cu style locks) the port when someone attemps
> 	   to log in so that only one of the three can use the line at the
> 	   same time.

Under SCO Unix, I have also found it useful to do a binary patch on
uugetty so that it uses "/etc/issuu" as its banner file, instead of
"/etc/issue" like getty does.  Thus, local users and dial-up users get
different messages before the login prompt.

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James B. O'Connor			jim at tiamat.fsc.com
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