From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 20 11:47:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.ham.muohio.edu (dragon.ham.muohio.edu [134.53.141.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A452615258; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by dragon.ham.muohio.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09798; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:07:10 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: dragon.ham.muohio.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard X-Sender: howardjp@dragon.ham.muohio.edu To: Lauri Laupmaa Cc: "'stable@freebsd.org'" , "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: setting up -STABLE for hack contest In-Reply-To: <554419C71610D211B3F808003636280213B120@lant.mbp.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > I would like to know how to change login screen and make it difficult to > guess what operating system is running, etc. Change the "default" entry in /etc/gettytab. On a 3.2-STABLEsustem (from the 19990812 snapshot), the default line looks like: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: You can change it to something like this for fun: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\nOpenVMS\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: It is also trivial to hack login(1) to say "Username:" to instead of "login:". As you might have guessed, I did this to a FreeBSD 3.0 system about nine months ago. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message