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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: The telnet "login" prompt
Message-ID: <475@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 5 Dec 90 22:22:53 GMT
References: <90336.150626TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> <3833@moxie.lonestar.org> <3834@moxie.lonestar.org>
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hack@moxie.lonestar.org (Greg Hackney) writes:
>In article <3833@moxie.lonestar.org> I write:
>> /bin/login,
>> uses the hardwired login prompt, therefore can't be changed.
>This is, unless you have source code. John Haugh (jfh@rpp386) distributes
>a public domain login security package that has a /bin/login replacement.

Be careful here. WIN/TCP (as of version 3.0) does things a bit differently.
When you come in via telnet or rlogin, the daemons exec /usr/etc/netlogin,
not /bin/login. netlogin is a port of the BSD login command that supports
-r and such. Why they didn't just replace /bin/login is beyond me ...

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