changing login words

jayakrishnan · 05-14-2003, 04:31 AM

Is there any way i can change the words

<hostname> login:

to some thing else

like

Welcome to <hostname>:

thanks

jharris · 05-14-2003, 04:35 AM

I'm not sure about adding something before the login: prompt (man login or man agetty doesn't say much) but you can always edit /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net to change the message above the prompt.

cheers

Jamie...

moses · 05-14-2003, 10:52 AM

It depends on whether you are using agetty or getty. with getty, it's possible without recompilation. With agetty, it doesn't look to be possible, but if you figure out how, let us know.

rmartine · 05-14-2003, 04:50 PM

You can..

Search around the linux source. It's in there somewhere becuase I've done it. Sorry I can't remember the file name.

martinman · 05-14-2003, 04:53 PM

what version of redhat? rh8 and 9 say "Welcome to <hostname>", what a coincidence, lol

jayakrishnan · 05-15-2003, 05:48 AM

i use RH 8.0 and i dosn't say welcome to <hostname>

nakkaya · 05-15-2003, 08:56 PM

look in /etc/issue you can change some options from there

Crashed_Again · 05-15-2003, 09:45 PM

Anyone know a site that lists what switches are available for the /etc/issue file? I had a list of the switches available for the PS1 variable but I lost it.

martinman · 05-15-2003, 10:14 PM

jaya, if you installed it, next time you choose to login, login to KDE instead of the default (gnome 2.2) and go to K -> Control Center From there you should be able to find your way around the tree on the left to change the logon words (you gotta use admin mode, but thats just a button ) ... however

im not sure if this works globally...

jayakrishnan · 05-16-2003, 02:49 AM

i want to change the console parameters

bulliver · 05-16-2003, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Anyone know a site that lists what switches are available for the /etc/issue file?

from 'man agetty':

Code:

 The issue-file (/etc/issue or the file set with the -f option) may con-
       tain certain escape codes to display the system  name,  date  and  time
       etc.  All  escape codes consist of a backslash (\) immediately followed
       by one of the letters explained below.

       b      Insert the baudrate of the current line.

       d      Insert the current date.

       s      Insert the system name, the name of the operating system.

       l      Insert the name of the current tty line.

       m      Insert the architecture identifier of the machine, eg. i486

       n      Insert the nodename of the machine, also known as the  hostname.

       o      Insert the domainname of the machine.

       r      Insert the release number of the OS, eg. 1.1.9.

       t      Insert the current time.

       u      Insert the number of current users logged in.

       U      Insert  the string "1 user" or "<n> users" where <n> is the num-
              ber of current users logged in.

       v      Insert the version of the OS, eg. the build-date etc.

       Example: On my system, the following /etc/issue file:

              This is \n.\o (\s \m \r) \t

       displays as

              This is thingol.orcan.dk (Linux i386 1.1.9) 18:29:30

moses · 05-16-2003, 04:01 PM

From the posts, it doesn't appear as though jayakrishnan is interested in the /etc/issue file. S/He would like to have the login prompt say, "Welcome to $h" where $h is hostname. This has nothing to do with issue, it has to do with agetty's login prompt, which is not adjustable w/o recompiling agetty. Your console login shows something like:

Code:

This is thingol.orcan.dk (Linux i386 1.1.9) 18:29:30
thingol login:

does it not?
What is being requested is a way to do:

Code:

Welcome to thingol:

bulliver · 05-16-2003, 04:18 PM

Quote:

From the posts, it doesn't appear as though jayakrishnan is interested in the /etc/issue file.

You are correct sir, that is why I quoted crashed_again, because I was answering his question, not jayakrishnan's

Crashed_Again · 05-16-2003, 06:27 PM

Thanks bulliver.