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- From: bruno@athena.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall)
- Subject: Re: Suppressing login junk.
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- References: <1393@minya.UUCP> <DERAADT.92Nov16235143@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 02:55:16 GMT
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- deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
- >In article <1393@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
- > We all know about /etc/motd and the grief it can cause for such things
- > as uucico, of course. 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. Creating a .hushlogin file has
- > no effect whatsoever, and I can't guess what might.
- >
- >Two step solution:
- >
- >1. Edit the binaries. I've done this with IRIX for YEARS. I use gmacs.
- >
- >2. Bitch to your vendor. CC: it to USL. Yo, vendors, wake up. You remember
- >what uucp is? And how uucp will only read a "fixed" number of characters in
- >it's send/expect strings before it aborts a connection?
-
- 3. Install another login, such as John F. Haugh II's of the shadow
- password suite fame.
-
- Bruno
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