[ale] Re: your mail

[Steven Rice]

I don't NON-STANDARD prompts and I'm not for this one bit but becuase
I'm a nice guy I will tell you what you can do...


When you start up telnetd  use the -L flag

<from the man page>

     -L loginprg  This option may be used to specify a different login
pro­
                  gram.  By default, /bin/login is used.
<end>


Then compile login with the NON-STANDARD prompt and call that like this
in /etc/inetd.conf or what ever.

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.telnetd -L
/bin/NON-STANDARD_login


Steven Rice
A UNIX system admin working as a warehouse slave


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> Actually this is a port on /dev/pts/* .  I've changed issue.net but assume
> telnetd calls /sbin/login.  Somewhere it must be determined that 'login'
> should be used.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Ryan
> Bridges
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:19 PM
> To: Christopher Fowler
> Cc: ale
> Subject: [ale] Re: your mail
> 
> That prompt is actually not controlled by /bin/login.  It is controlled by
> your getty service.  If you are not sure which one you use, look in
> /etc/inittab for a reference.  Some getty programs will allow you to
> change the login prompt, fbgetty for example.  For your getty, read the
> man page.
> 
> Ryan Bridges
> ryan at linuxgeneral.net
> reverend at linux.com
> 
> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is it possible to change the 'login:' on telnet to 'USERNAME:' without a
> > recompile /bin/login?  I changed VC in /etc/gettydefs but that did not
> seem
> > to take effect.  Can I do this?
> >
> >
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