Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:31:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Damian Tometzki <damian@tometzki.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: telnetd banners (Re: conf/33476: gettytab and issue) Message-ID: <20020103123128.B236@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <000601c1948b$b1245d80$6401a8c0@dip.dialin.net>; from damian@tometzki.de on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:20:22PM %2B0100 References: <20020102131323.A185@gohan.cjclark.org> <32265.1010041103@www48.gmx.net> <20020103111136.A236@gohan.cjclark.org> <000601c1948b$b1245d80$6401a8c0@dip.dialin.net>
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[Redirected to -questions.] On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:20:22PM +0100, Damian Tometzki wrote: > Hello, > > I presume I`m using a telnet client, over the network to log in. > > I get the following screen: > > FreeBSD/i386 (DAMIAN.HOME.DE) (ttyp1) > > login: > > > but the if=/etc/issue what is defined in the gettytab wasnt displayed. > > That is my problem. Yes, as far as I know, telnetd(8) doesn't use the 'if' name. Feel free to patch telnetd.c to do so. I believe the code for the banner is at about line 1131 of src/crypto/telnet/telnetd/telnetd.c. Others on this list might have workarounds for you. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> > To: "Damian Tometzki" <Tometzki@gmx.de> > Cc: <bug-followup@freebsd.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:11 PM > Subject: Re: conf/33476: gettytab and issue > > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:58:23AM +0100, Damian Tometzki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > when i login on the console then works fine. But when I login from a > > > Workstation (Win98, Win2000) then are not being displayed. > > > > I presume you are using a telnet or ssh client, or some other protocol > > over the network to log in? No getty(8) is involved in a network > > login, so nothing in gettytab(5) is going to have any effect. > > > > This is not a system bug, so I am going to close up the PR. If you > > need more help with this problem, I suggest you send details of what > > you are currently doing, and what results you are trying to get to > > -questions or another appropriate FreeBSD email list. > > -- > > "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." > > > > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > | cjclark@jhu.edu > > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > > -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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