Login prompt change (for telnet)

Paul Slootman slootman at dri.nl
Fri May 24 01:12:34 AEST 1991


benson at iris.eecs.ucdavis.EDU (Gregory D. Benson) writes:
>I want to add a message before the login prompt to something
>
>Type "guest" to enter system
>login:
>
>I have found a file /etc/issue that allows me to do this
>for direct connect serial lines.  But it doesn't work
>for telnet sessions (which is really what I need).
>
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>
>I am running SCO UNIX SYSV 3.2 (386).

Doing a quick
	strings /etc/telnetd | grep etc
gives me (amongst other things)
	/etc/telbanner
and yes, the contents of this file (if present) will be displayed
before the "login:".

You were right; it's simple. (I find strings one of the most useful
commands for finding out this type of thing.)

Paul.



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