Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:34:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: Jim Holthaus <jim@holthaus.com>, Slyce <slyce@onramp.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WHY? WAS:Clear screen before login... Message-ID: <19980914163455.A18000@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <35FD8866.FC3A76F0@aei.ca>; from "Malartre" on Mon Sep 14 17:19:34 GMT 1998 References: <35FC33DA.76FDBB64@onramp.net> <v04003a04b2224f539b6c@[192.168.2.3]> <19980914001932.A6503@emsphone.com> <35FD8866.FC3A76F0@aei.ca>
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In the last episode (Sep 14), Malartre said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Sep 13), Jim Holthaus said: > > > >Is there a way to clear the screen each time login is run on a vt??? > > > > > > Sure. Edit your default entry in /etc/gettytab. Here is what mine looks like: > > > > > > :im=\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n > > > \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: > > > > How about :im=\f\r\nFreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n: instead? Syscons > > clears the screen when it sees a formfeed. > > Why does it's not in the basic instalation of freebsd? I dont see why > I should be able to read what people writed on the screen after they > login off. Why is there the "choice" to be, well, "unsecure"? Well, clearing the screen means nothing on serial lines (what people originally logged in on) or network logins. If a user doesn't want their last screenfull of info visible when they logout, they can clear the screen by putting a "clear" comment on their ~/.logout script. I took advantage of this non-clearing feature when I was in college to put a nice ascii-art picture on the terminal for the next person to see when they logged in (used the graphics chars of the Zenith-19 terminals to get 80x50 resolution :) My favorite was a digitized eye the size of the screen. I'd log into two adjecent terminals, then log out, so you could see a face staring at you from across the room.. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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