Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:39:54 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.3rc2: if=/etc/issue in /etc/gettytab is not respected Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104040038410.12194-100000@jamus.xpert.com> In-Reply-To: <20010403151111.E12164@fw.wintelcom.net>
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With enough attention and code analysis, that could be made before 4.3-RELEASE. There's almost two weeks left, and many people who are willing to test it. Me for example :) On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> [010403 14:53] wrote: > > 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. > > I was doing to tell you to RTFM about gettytab's alternative to > /etc/issue, but it looks like telnetd got pretty broken somehow in > both -current and -stable wrt per-login banners. Ie, niether one > seems to work now. :( > > It looks like Poul-Henning and Jeroen Ruigrok were the last people > seen in the general vicinity of telnetd/gettytab. Can we get a helping > hand here guys? > > -Alfred > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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