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From: bernie@codas.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: gettydefs and the login prompt
Message-ID: <1397@codas.att.com>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 10:19:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 10:19:13 1987
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In article <32157@auc.UUCP> tab@auc.UUCP (Terrence Brannon ) writes:
> 
> The manual pages for sys V unix state that the prompt you get to
> log in comes from a field in gettydefs.

This is true only for the prompt from 'getty'.

> I changed the prompt to something different, but this new prompt
> will only show up on the first login attempt. If this login fails
> for some reason, the prompt goes back to "login:" even though I
> have edited out every occurence of this prompt in /etc/gettydefs.

This is because the second and subsequent prompts come from 'login'
not 'getty'.  These continue until 'login' times out and 'getty'
restarts.  If you have the login.c source, you can change it.
-- 
Bernie Brown
AT&T, Customer Billing Systems, Altamonte Springs, FL (305)767-2668
bernie@codas.att.com