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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 22:39:35 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Questions
Message-ID:  <19980502223935.A16476@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <354BD69C.D8ACC42@san.rr.com>; from "Studded" on Sat May  2 19:29:48 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980501091945.29013D-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> <354BD69C.D8ACC42@san.rr.com>

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In the last episode (May 02), Studded said:
> Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 
> > Check out the im= field in /etc/gettytab
> 
> 	I have a couple questions related to this. For one, the /etc/issue
> question comes up often, is there any way to hack getty to allow the im
> field to specify a file?  I am sure this would be a welcome addition. 

check out the "if" field.
 
> 	The other question is a long standing one, in my brain anyway. :) Is
> there any way to make the im field work with ssh?

ssh doesn't use getty.  Neither does telnetd. 

You can print a message, or run arbitrary commands, through an ssh
login by creating a /usr/local/etc/sshrc script and displaying the
message from there.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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