On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:05:24PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	a) Status quo - NetBSD does the Wrong Thing some of the time.
> > 	b) Add several extra processes to fix it, unwanted overhead.
> > 	c) Remove the whole thing.
> While annoying to experienced users, the message is good for newbies. It
> tells them that they really shouldn't use root as their login account. :-)
> I think a lot of them need it.

An option would be tacking something like this onto the end of .login

echo "###"
echo "### We advise..."
echo "### don't do it..."
echo "### You won't see this again"
grep -v '###' ~/.login > ~/.loginx
mv ~/.loginx ~/.login ; echo "###"

Then you can be as verbose as you like, since it will only show up once.
Just make the text clear and emphatic enough that the one viewing is enough.

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