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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: getty/login for callback
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Date: 28 Mar 89 16:43:45 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <13853@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
: In article <180001@mechp10.UUCP> klein@mechp10.UUCP (Greg Klein) writes:
: >I need the source code for getty(1) and login(1) or something similar if
: >a public domain version don't exist.  I want to modify them to spawn ct(1)
: >instead of a shell to dial back the user.  Please email or post (to
: >comp.sources.d ?). Thanks.

For this, if you want it done right, modify login(1).  What happens
is this: getty reads the first line typed by the user. It passes that
off to login, which prompts for the password.  If, however, the
username/password is incorrect, login does *not* go back to getty, it
just prompts for the user name itself. So you'd better do your
modifications to login.

: A getty clone was recently posted in alt.sources.  It appears to be a
: beta release so I expect to see a full-use version in some other
: newsgroup near you soon ...

It's beta mainly because I haven't had a chance to test it out on
anything other than my system, because there might still be lurking
bugs, because I haven't implemented anything that will let one
eliminate uugetty, and because I *hate* patch1, patch2, patch999,
etc., and don't intent to contribute that kind of software.

On the other hand, I've had not a whit of trouble with it, and I've
heard from two people who use it on non-Microport systems without
problem.

(Sorry about the late response, my upstream site has been in yo-yo
mode for the last 10 or so days. RIght now, I'm about 5 or 6 days
behind the net. Sigh.)

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Bill                            { uunet | novavax } !twwells!bill
(BTW, I'm may be looking for a new job sometime in the next few
months.  If you know of a good one where I can be based in South
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