Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your login and hit enter, the getty/telnetd execs /bin/login, passing the username you typed in. If you enter an incorrect login, control does not pass back to your getty/telnetd but instead /bin/login spits out another login: prompt. Pretty clever no? (No.) This is rather annoying but this way of "logging people in" is quite ingrained in unix.
Anyway, I believe /bin/login gets the prompt from /etc/issue. Perhaps a bug should be filed regarding '\?' substitution. Joost Kooij wrote: > Hi, > > For quite a while now I've been looking at this and I don't quite know > where even to look to fix it. > > This is what happens: > > --begin--- > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (unstable) pc47 tty2 > > pc47 login: kooij > Password: > Login incorrect > Debian GNU/\s 2.0 (unstable) \n \l > > pc47 login: > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (unstable) pc47 tty2 > > pc47 login: > --end-- > > When I get a second login prompt, it is messed up. > > What? When? How? Why? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
