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From: hack@moxie.lonestar.org (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: The telnet "login" prompt
Message-ID: <3833@moxie.lonestar.org>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:10:28 GMT
References: <90336.150626TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>
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In article <90336.150626TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes:

> I have most of the prompts in /etc/gettydefs changed so that the
> login prompt is slightly more informative.  When I look in /etc/inittab
> however, the prompt for a telnet login (win tcp/ip 4.10) apparently
> comes from the ntty line in /etc/inittab which uses the vtty line
> in /etc/gettydefs.  There is no login text after the appropriate prompt
> there, however, so the question (it may be a dumb one) is where does
> the word login come from when telneting in, and can it be changed?

For ordinary physical ports, S5R3's getty looks at the /etc/issue file and
/etc/gettydefs for login message information. Once the user provides
initial login and password information, getty passes control to /bin/login for
password checks and logging into the system. If the login fails, /bin/login
then provides a hardwired "login: " prompt, which can only be changed in
the source code.

Assuming that WIN's telnet operation is similar to Berkeley's, the
telnet process doesn't use getty, but instead does an exec to /bin/login,
uses the hardwired login prompt, therefore can't be changed. Berkeley's
uucpd daemon also has an internal fixed login message.
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Greg Hackney
hack@moxie.lonestar.org