Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!Hampton@DOCKMASTER.arpa From: Hampton@DOCKMASTER.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: gettydefs and the login prompt Message-ID: <10540@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 13:02:49 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.10540 Posted: Wed Nov 25 13:02:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 02:34:31 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 6 Your problem is simple. The original prompt you receive is the prompt from /etc/gettydefs. This is printed by 'init', before 'login' is ever invoked. The subsequent prompts are from a hardcoded line in the 'login' program itself. David Hampton