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#! rnews 2002 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.sandia.gov!sargon.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: Re: gpm for freebsd? Message-ID: <1996Apr8.204110.20900@mdl.sandia.gov> Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM References: <4jo9ge$pcp@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4jpglh$kv1@rigel.pixi.com> <shawnbDp7Kp9.HJK@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 20:41:10 GMT Lines: 29 In article <shawnbDp7Kp9.HJK@netcom.com>, Shawn Brown <shawnb@netcom.com> wrote: >In article <4jpglh$kv1@rigel.pixi.com>, R J Huntington <rjh@pacinfo.net> wrote: >>In article <4jo9ge$pcp@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, thieule@w3eax.umd.edu propones... >>> >>>A second question, what is the file that FreeBSD reads to display the >>>login banner? eg what you see before the login: prompt. Under linux, >>>this was /etc/issue or /etc/issue.net, but when i looked in the /etc >>>directory, I couldn't find either files. >> >>Look at /etc/motd which I imagine stands for 'message of the day'. >> > >No. /etc/motd gets displayed *after* login. He wants a pre-login banner. >This is an an att'ish feature, and is utilized by adding something to >/etc/issue on att'ish systems. This feature is not supported in *BSD, >but you can get the same effect by utilizing the banner process option >under the tcp_wrapper package. Or, I suppose, you could write a small >wrapper script (perl or awk comes to mind) around login and have it print >out a banner before executing login. > >It would be easiest to use tcpd, plus you get tcpip logging and access >control with the deal as well. Why not just use the "lm" field of gettytab(5)? --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>