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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2001 16:05:20 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        dolby@home.se, MSILVER@scana.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: copyright lines
Message-ID:  <20010524160520.A28168@billygoat.slb.to>
In-Reply-To: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760717603C@msg04.scana.com>; from MSILVER@scana.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:28:51PM -0400
References:  <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760717603C@msg04.scana.com>

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> > Hi, I got a question about how to stop the copyright lines from
> > showing up whenever I login to the box.  I tried removing the
> > :copyright from the default: section in login.conf and then
> > running cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf But it still shows up...  What am
> > I missing?
>
> Via Telnet?  If you add -h to telnetd it will hide the OS specific
> info before the login prompt.  If you mean the message of the day
> after you login, edit /etc/motd.

This cruft is printed by login(1) unless the `quietlog' flag is set
(see /usr/src/usr.bin/login/login.c, line 380 or so).  This flag gets
set for an individual luser if the file ~/.hushlogin exists, or it's
set for an entire login class if you have `:hushlogin:' in
/etc/login.conf.

Cheers,
Lucas

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