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From: jweldon@renegade.sgi.com (Jack Weldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Banners when logging in
Message-ID: <5127@odin.SGI.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 90 01:14:27 GMT
References: <36832@mips.mips.COM> <1849@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <36847@mips.mips.COM>
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In article <36847@mips.mips.COM> rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>
>Unfortunately, the banner is compiled inline into telnetd.  I just submitted
>an enhancement request to get it from a file.
>-- 
One possibility here is to have login read /etc/issue like getty does 
(or should). That way any incoming connections can get the msg BEFORE the 
login prompt is displayed. For ftpd, the daemon would have to be modified
to do so. I believe that this has been done here at SGI for a future release.

Cheers, 

Jack P. Weldon (jweldon@sgi.com)     Fish and guests grow stale after 3 days
SGI Product Support		                           M.F.K. Fisher