From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 8:11:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from student.lssu.edu (student.lssu.edu [198.110.216.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0A314D44 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pe@student.lssu.edu) Received: from localhost (pe@localhost) by student.lssu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA25872; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:12:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:12:40 -0500 (EST) From: "System Admin." To: Noah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> 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 get tcp_wrapper and install it. tcp_wrapper will do the job for you. If you want to change banner you can edit /etc/motd file. HTH pe' ------------------------------ UNIX System Admin. Distributed Computing Services Lake Superior State University 650 W. Easterday Ave. Sault Ste. Marie. MI 49783 USA. ------------------------------ On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message