Thought: > 5) I just installed shadow-login_960810, shadow-passwd_960810, and > shadow-su_960810 on my system. Everything works fine, but I was wondering > if there was any way to customize 'login'. For one, if you have a 'login > incorrect' (coz of misspelt names or wrong passwords or wahtever) it take > about 3 very annoying seconds to retry. Is there a way to make it ask for > a new login: immediately instead of waiting? I'm guessing that the pause > is a 'feature' to deter password guessers from breaking in, but I think > it's just annoying and would rather have it turned off.
See /etc/login.def (FAIL_DELAY line) > 6) Another login question: my host name is res154002.wsu.edu because I'm > living in a dorm, and whenever I get the login prompt it always says > "res154002 login:". Well, I know this is just being picky, but is there a > way to make it not say res154002? It looks really tacky. I'd rather it > just say "login:". Is there a place where I can get the source for a > 'login' with shadow capability so I can just edit all these options in a > config.h or something? I don't know of a fix offhand, hut you can change your hostname to something less ugly than "res154002" (hey, it's better than the "J301856802" I used to have for a hostname :-) Just edit/etc/hostname -- #!/usr/bin/perl -i=-/*/~%*~%/~~%/~~~-/*/_/=~~~-/====~~! # [EMAIL PROTECTED] $o=35;$_="$^I-*!=====_!/";s/~/!*/g;s~%~-/ / ~g;$_.='--- Joey Hess ';s/=/__/g;y|*!| \\|;for(split/-/){print' 'x$o--."$_\n"}# a M.C. Escher fan