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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Changing the pre-login banner.
Message-ID: <kientzleDMq0I6.M7@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <4fov71$4dc@piglet.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:32:29 GMT
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This login banner is generated by getty(8), using instructions from
gettytab(5). If you look in /etc/gettytab, the `default' entry has an
`im' field to set the login banner. You should be able to change that
as you wish (I don't offhand know what, if any, limits exist on the
length of `im', but you've got the source to getty if you need to change
it. ;-)
- Tim Kientzle
In article <4fov71$4dc@piglet.cc.utexas.edu>,
Stewart Nichols <nichols@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>Telneting to a 2.1.0-release machine produces the following
>banner and prompt:
>
> FreeBSD (host.my.domain) (ttyp1)
>
> Login:
>
>What I need to do is add some instructions for how people can
>access our guest accounts. How do I add text to the login
>banner (NOT the motd)?
>
>stu
>nichols@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu