On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: > > >Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? > > >/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff > > >like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. > > > > I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to emit a pre-login > > greeting/warning/whatever, and was unrelated to login. > > Yes, you are right. The one for network logins is /etc/netissue or > issue-net > or some such. > > It's been years since I went anywhere near that stuff, and wetware RAM is > notoriously bad ;-) > > Well, I mostly wanted to make the stuff work, then sort out which piece was which. I have only 3 kinds of login: consoles (Ctl-Alt-F1, etc), ssh logins, and window manager logins. For the window manager, I imagine I'm stuck with tweaking /etc/profile, or some such, depending on the shell (always bash on this machine). It just seemed perverse that the one way I found to make them work also makes something emit error messages. Grrrrrrr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
