Subject: Re: Login banner change?
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@unicast.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/12/1999 15:11:28
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On 11 Mar 1999, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

>	Nope, we don't seem to have support for doing that. It's
>actually telnetd and getty that would need to be tweaked to do
>this... it shouldn't be hard, and there are plenty of capabilites free
>in gettytab that could be used. I'd use "if", for "initial file", to
>go along with "im" for "initial message".

You can do this very simply with the `banners' option in
/etc/hosts.allow.  See hosts_options(5) for details.  What's nice about
this is that you can show different banners to different connecting
hosts...

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@unicast.com

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