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Bugtraq archives for 3rd quarter (Jul-Sep) 1994: Re: Legality of warnings

Re: Legality of warnings

Andrej Misik (misikalpha.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk)
Sun, 21 Aug 1994 19:37:45 +0200 (MET DST) 

> 
> I don't know about SunOS 4.1.3 but there is a file in SYS V Rel 4
> (Solaris 2.3 is based on this) called /etc/issue that is sent to
> the terminal before the login: prompt.  It is ususally sent to
> the console and network connections, but not necessarily sent to
> serial connections (I'm still trying to figure that one out).
> 

	To be correct: /etc/issue is used only by getty. This is taken
	from issue(4):

-------------
issue is an ASCII file that is read by program getty and then written
to any terminal spwned or respawned from the lines file.

FILES

	/etc/issue

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	That means you can't use /etc/issue for telnet sessions (since
	getty (actually ttymon) is used only for hard-wired terminals).

	Anyway, I'm also interested in equivalent of /etc/issue
	for in.telnetd.
-- 

	greetings, miso.

	E-Mail: Andrej.Misikfmph.uniba.sk