Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!pemurray
From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Putting a message before a login prompt????
Message-ID: <3542.27a2f170@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 20:27:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.220604.18448@hoss.unl.edu>
Lines: 18

In article <1991Jan24.220604.18448@hoss.unl.edu>, anitac@hoss.unl.edu (Anita Cook) writes:
> How do I insert a customized message prior to the login
> prompt.  For example:  
> 
> Welcome to the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Library
> Public users type "library" at login prompt
> 
> login:

Look in the /etc/gettytab file.  The first entry is a default entry
for all connections.  If you change one of the parameters there (I
can't remember which one it is), you can change the login message.

Peter
-- 
Peter Murray            Neat UNIX Stunts #4:             pemurray@miavx1.bitnet
176 Thompson Hall             csh> \(-            pmurray@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
Oxford, OH 45056                       NeXT Mail:  pmurray@next4.acs.muohio.edu