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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show login(1) how to execute programs at start up
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Nik Clayton wrote:
> Attached is a small diff to login.c to do this.
> 
> With this patch, the "welcome" capability is now a comma-delimited
> string of files or programs (and command line arguments).  Files are
> referenced as before, programs have a leading "|" symbol.  To add
> fortunes at startup for everybody you'd put
> 
>     ...
>     welcome=/etc/motd,|/usr/games/fortune freebsd-tips:\
>     ...

What happens if the program won't run; can you still
login?

The login.conf is important for rebadging FreeBSD based
embedded systems; it seems that putting the code in
/usr/share/skel is really the best bet.  Maybe I'm not
understanding the sysinstall/adduser problem?  Why is
there any teaching necessary?  Last time I checked, the
root login skeleton ran fortunes, if it was installed,
by doing a test for the binary.  This seems more reasonable.

Alternately, could you limit it to _only_ MOTD, or _only_
running a program, and going back to the prior behavior
in case of the program to run not being present?  That
would just ass a "|xxx" option as an addition, which
would have the least impact.  You could also put it in the
file spewing code, which means that it would work for any
option where a file was to be spewed, with the behaviour
being as-if-not-specified, as in the missing file case,
historically.

For an example, the /etc/COPYRIGHT file replaces the
login Copyright in the unmodified login.c today.

-- Terry

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