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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to change pre-login banner???
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Date: 4 Jan 91 17:22:54 GMT
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tmoore@pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca (Tom Moore) writes:

>How do I change the banner that is printed by 'getty' 
>before a users logs in?  Currently, getty prints 
>the following:

The banner getty prints on `hard' ttys (as opposed to
pseudo ttys) is defined in /etc/gettytab.
Checkout the :im=..: capability for the ``default''
entry.

>SunOS UNIX (node)
>
>login:

This particular header is probably not from getty,
but from telnetd. If you want to change it, get
the sources from telnetd, insert your favorite message,
and install.

Telnetd sources are available from e.g. uunet.

Casper
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