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From: jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu (Joe Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Login prompt change
Keywords: login
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Date: 23 May 91 14:22:30 GMT
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In article <9020@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> benson@iris.eecs.ucdavis.EDU (Gregory D. Benson) writes:
>Ok here is something I thought would be easy to change.
>I want to add a message before the login prompt to something
>
>Type "guest" to enter system
>login:
>
>I have found a file /etc/issue that allows me to do this
>for direct connect serial lines.  But it doesn't work
>for telnet sessions (which is really what I need).
>
>I realize that I can change the prompt in /etc/gettydefs,
>but this still won't change the login prompt for telnet
>connections.
>
On most machines, you can do this by changing the inetd.conf file
to call telnetd_script instead of telnetd. In this script file, you
would cat out the message and then exec the telnetd program. This
is what I do and it works.

Joe Sharp
jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu