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Subject: Re: Running a shell instead of getty?
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Thanks for peoples comments...I haven't tried just callin login but I
would guess it wouldn't work as login wouldn't open they vty and do all
the getty magic. I have manged to hack getty and I have two new versions:

	1) allows you to type in any name and you will be logged in as
them without providing a password.

	2) just runs my shell which was the original idea.

If anyone wants the diffs (I just modified getty straight from the 2.1.6
source) just mail me but I don't imagine there will be much demand :-)

My next task I think will be to try and get telnetd to give my shell
without anymore prompting when I telnet from my mac. Unfortuantely telnetd
appears to call login differently to getty. rlogin would accomplish this
but I don't have an rlogin client :-(

Andrew