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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: getty/login for callback
Message-ID: <14405@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 31 Mar 89 19:05:10 GMT
References: <180001@mechp10.UUCP> <13853@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <797@twwells.uucp> <597@peritek.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <597@peritek.UUCP> dig@peritek.UUCP (Dave Gotwisner) writes:
>In article <797@twwells.uucp>, bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) writes:
>> For this, if you want it done right, modify login(1).  What happens
>> is this: getty reads the first line typed by the user.
>
>No No.  This requires Kernel source and is definitely non portable.

Huh?  I don't see why.  There are now freely redistributable versions
of init, getty and login.  Certainly modifying one of those will
produce the desired result ...
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