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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Changing the pre-login banner.
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:36:37 GMT

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)?

Edit /etc/gettytab.

Chris

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