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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To:        Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>
Cc:        "'Noah Abraham Levitt'" <nlevitt@umich.edu>, "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Change login banner
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008150927510.83027-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B33B266@sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com>

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Nick Evans mumbled:

> That's the login message. I've changed that in the past, I mean the part
> when you first telnet to the box the 
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 (somehostname) (ttyp0)
> 
> 
> That part. I'd like to mask the OS name etc. I've seen this done on linux
> systems, but wasn't sure how it was done or if it could be done in freebsd.

You can completely disable the FreeBSD/i386 line from Telnet is to add
the -h arg to telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to change it :-(

// Linh Pham
// http://closedsrc.org



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