From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 15:29:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A1716A4B3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitelone.com (mail.digitelone.com [202.138.128.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03A343FB1 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gihl@digitelone.com) Received: from [203.175.2.234] (account ) by digitelone.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 3.5.9) with HTTP id 3278778; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:20:31 +0800 From: "Gil Agno Virtucio" To: rseals@vdsi.net X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.5.9 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 06:20:31 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Securing the FreeBSD Console by removing OS Version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:29:05 -0000 Maybe you can edit your /etc/gettytab default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n\Some Text Here \r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue: then you can maybe also use figlet to generate some fancy text to your /etc/issue. You can also disallow users from accessing uname. hope this helps. On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You realise that if someone can log in to the system they can > trivially discover the OS and OS version by querying the kernel? As a > "security measure" this change has zero benefit. > Yes, uname -a will do the trick. Here is what I wanted. I did not want the version to pop up on the console after boot. So I added the clear command to the /etc/issue. So, I want the console to look like this after the system is up and booted: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- security mumbo jumbo -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Login: Ray Seals ____________________________________________________________________ ** Get your free E-Mail account at WWW.DIGITELONE.COM **