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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to change pre-login banner???
Message-ID: <5066@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 23:12:43 GMT
References: <1085@pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca> <1536@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>SunOS UNIX (node)
>>
>>login:
>
>This particular header is probably not from getty,
>but from telnetd.

It's almost certainly from "telnetd"; for whatever reason, SunOS's
"/etc/gettytab" still has a 4.1cBSD-ish login prompt, rather than a
4.2andupBSDish login prompt.

>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.

And Dave Borman's latest "telnetd" seems to use the "im" capability for
the "default" entry in "/etc/gettytab" for the prompt it prints, so if
that's the version you get, you can install your favorite message in
"/etc/gettytab", rather than in the "telnetd" code.