From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 15:19:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353E814EE2 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:19:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA33381; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:22:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:22:31 -0500 (EST) From: hometeam To: Malartre Cc: Noah , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <36EAEB45.98F81B7D@aei.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can also use banners, with tcpwrappers. On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Malartre wrote: > > Noah wrote: > > > > I am new to freebsd, but I a machine set up now. I want to have > > people to be able to telnet into my machine. This works fine. I want > > to display a message before the login prompt, similiar to some ISPs. > > Is there a file I need to edit? If so which one. I was told > > /etc/issue, but that does not exist on my system. > > > > when I telnet into this machine I get the following: > > > > FreeBSD/i386 (hostname) (ttyv0) > > > > login: > > > > I want to change this to say something else before the login prompt. > > Please > > let me know. > > > > E-mail is better than posting if possible > > > > noah@oopz.com > > > > I also would like to remove the copyright info that is displayed after > > the usedr logs in. I mean not have the copyright info displayed. > > > > How can I do this > > > > Thanks > > Noah Davidson > Hi > 1) You should not send messages in HTML, since many people cannot read > them. > 2) You should put a subject to your mail. > 3) Edit /etc/gettytab for the message before the login prompt and find > that line: > default:\ > somethingFreeBSDsomething > 4) Edit /etc/motd for the message after the login prompt. > Thank You > -- > [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off! - Cartman, South Park] > [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message