Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 14:53:03 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3rc2: if=/etc/issue in /etc/gettytab is not respected Message-ID: <200104032153.f33Lr3c16830@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Apr 2001 13:00:19 PDT." <20010403130019.J813@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Having this work is critical for many places that mandate a pre-login message. I suspect it would be a major problem for most US government users. It sure has messed up my plan to install 4.3 on a new name server for our network. The security people are remarkably unwilling to accept that it will be fixed soon. They want it fixed NOW. Yes, I can fix it myself by editing the source and it should be fixed in stable about 2 hours after stable is released, but many places will stick to release come hell or high water and than complain that /etc/issue is not working. While my opinion is not worth much, I do wish this could be re-considered. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:00:19 -0700 > From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > * Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> [010403 12:44] wrote: > > Perhaps it's this PR?: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23562 > > I feel kinda shy to even ask to commit to telnetd this late in > the release cycle. Let's call it a missing feature for now > and wait till 4.3-stable before approaching this. > > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > * Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> [010403 12:16] wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I installed the 4.3rc2 on my fw machine, and I noticed the $subject. > > > > Is it a known issue? > > > > > > It seems to work here on -current, are you sure that you restarted > > > getty? > > > > > > evil: killall getty > > > > > > -- > > > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > > > Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," > > > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. > > > > > > > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant > > [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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