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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Subject: Re: Suppressing login junk.
- Message-ID: <BxtvnJ.DAE@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: login hushlogin
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1393@minya.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:28:31 GMT
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- In article <1393@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
- >Well, /etc/motd here is zero length, and still,
- >when my program tries logging in (using either a serial port or a
- >telnet connection), it gets a screen full of "Copyright (C) ..."
- >notices. In digging around, I discovered that the culprit is
- >/bin/login, which has the copyright notices hard coded. TFM doesn't
- >give a clue as to how to suppress them.
-
- On just about every unix I have ever used, the first thing
- I did was use bed (binary editor) on /bin/login and stuck a
- \00 over the first C in all the copyright messages.
- Cleans up the login prompt nicely.
-
- --
- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
- Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
- That's the biz, sweetheart.
- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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