On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > 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.
Hmm, what package has it all wrong then? $ dpkg -S /etc/issue base-files: /etc/issue $ dpkg -S /bin/login login: /bin/login -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
