Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 01:30:39 -0500 From: Jim Palmer <rip@berk.com> To: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login screen,,,,, Message-ID: <9801170630.AA24775@host.berk.com>
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Yes you can put an "issue" before the prompt.
Use TCP WRAPPERS. you can get the tcp_wrapper package for FreeBSD-current on
ftp.freebsd.org
It's a REALLY simple utility. I would actually get the source, then compile
it instead of going with the package, easier to manipulate. It was really
made for security, but is basically sits before a "wait" daemon as declared
in the inetd.conf file. It catches the request before the daemon, and
processes the user's IP through /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny I
currently have the tcp wrapper to catch requests from the telnet port, and
it displays a "banner" from /etc/motd.telnetd and it then goes to the
telnetd. It's essentially a way to add tons of security features, along with
being able to add a "banner" to any daemon in the inetd.conf I also have the
wrappers logging every incoming IP address for telnet and ftp.
-Jim Palmer
At 11:38 PM 1/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> True. But I have a question. I there anything simlar to 'issue'
>> that is in Sys V.
>>
>> If you are not familiar with this, a file called /etc/issue is a
>> text file, just like /etc/motd.
>>
>> It is 'issued' before the login in prompt. On my older system I
>> had about 3 lines of disclaimers before the prompt - you know the
>> legalese stuff. That's a bit cumbersome to put in the login
>> string.
>>
>> --
>> bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bill@bilver.com
>>
>
>That's a really really nice feature that sco has... If nobody else already
>has one, I'll try to come up with a patch to do this..
>
>Kevin
>
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