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From: ballou@brahms.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: gettydefs and the login prompt
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 04:33:01 EST
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In article <32157@auc.UUCP> tab@auc.UUCP (0-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. In customizing my 3B2, I
>edited the login field of this file that originally said "login:"
>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 not surprising, since only the first login prompt is issued by
/etc/getty.  After getty reads the login name, it execs login with
this name as an argument.  If login does not get a satisfactory password,
it then prompts for another login name with its "login: " prompt.
Kenneth R. Ballou			ARPA:  ballou@brahms.berkeley.edu
Department of Mathematics		UUCP:  ...!ucbvax!brahms!ballou
University of California
Berkeley, California  94720