Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: gettydefs and the login prompt Message-ID: <2330@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 09:44:44 EST Article-I.D.: tut.2330 Posted: Thu Nov 26 09:44:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:39:47 EST References: <4139@venera.isi.edu> <3516@xanth.UUCP> <32157@auc.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science Lines: 19 Keywords: unix, login, getty In article <32157@auc.UUCP>, tab@auc.UUCP (Terrence Brannon ) writes: ... > for some reason, the prompt goes back to "login:" even though I > have edited out every occurence of this prompt in /etc/gettydefs. This is about the 7th posting on your question but there is something important that should be said. Be very careful with what you display before logging in. If you print anything else besides "login:" you are giving crackers clues about the system they reached. The less they know the better. If you say anything like "welcome to the such-and-such computer system", you can forget prosecuting anyone for breakins. The legal issues are a big can of worms (are lawyers worms (-: ), I could go on, but you didn't ask for it. You might even consider changing the getty/login prompt from "login:" (UN*X) to "logon " (other OS's) just to throw crackers off track.