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Subject: Re: Changing Login Screen.
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I tried editing the gettytab file, and it immediately changes the login 
prompt.  Looks to me like if you put some ANSI tags in there, it would work.

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, RPD wrote:

> I was wondering how to change the default login screen. I have see some
> telnet logins support ansi color. They allmost look like an old bbs type
> login. Below is what I am trying to change. Someone told me that I have to
> edit the /etc/gettytab but not sure if that is all.
> 
> 
>    FreeBSD (phearless.com) (ttyp0)
> 
> login: 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thankz 
> Ryan Duda
> 
> 
> 
>