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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: help sought - securing a terminal/line
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Date: 8 Aug 90 17:04:36 GMT
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From article <2103.26bf3e39@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, by pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray):
> Well, this will work, except that getty will still ask for the username,
> and pass that as an argument to the program defined as "lo" above.  I
> would just like users to connect to the tty and automatically be dumped
> in the application without "logging in".

I had a similar problem, which I compromised on.  Instead of fooling around
and spending a lot of time, I used "lo" to start a different program,
and modified "lm" (login message) to tell the user what username to type.
They still have to type that name, but at least they know what.

Not the greatest, but it worked and it was quick to do.

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu