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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: login prompt not staying set
Message-ID: <6385@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 00:01:04 GMT
References: <142700001@occrsh.ATT.COM> <2932@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <16848@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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As quoted from <16848@topaz.rutgers.edu> by ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie):
+---------------
| No, it would be far better if getty didn't attempt to pretend
| it was login at all.  However, it likes to do so so it can do
| things like autobauding and trying to guess what you want for
| terminal modes.
+---------------

So why can't getty print "Press RETURN" until it gets a recognizeable
RETURN with a 1 second gap around it, then exec login with no arguments?
This could be implemented now by changing only getty source (see uutty
for one such PD source); "login" will work right without arguments.  Then
change "login" to look for a prompt in a control file of some kind.
-- 
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