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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Banners when logging in
Message-ID: <36812@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 23:18:04 GMT
References: <502@tron.UUCP>
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Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <502@tron.UUCP> carriero@tron.UUCP (Chris Carriero) writes:
>This may be a stupid question but I don't remember how to do this.
>
>How do you get a banner to type to the screen when you connect to
>the system.  This banner would appear before the login prompt.  
>
>The banner would say something like "This is an authorized system..."
>then say
>login:
>
>Chris

You can:

1) Have a program print the message, then exec getty

2) Put the message in the gettydefs description for the line
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