How to: Change Login Prompt

wildem · 05-24-2006, 03:42 PM

Hy all,
I've set out to change the look of the text prompt at login time and need a way to do it. I have managed to change the message before by editing /etc/issue and after with help of etc/motd.

but what i need is to change the look of:

'debian login:' to somthing different like 'My Linux Box Login' or something .

Does anybody know how to handle this,

Thankyou

ethics · 05-24-2006, 07:02 PM

I believe it is the hostname of the machine, check it with

Code:

hostname

or

Code:

echo $HOSTNAME

This should return "debian".

This can be changed with the hostname command

Code:

man hostname

and addign an entry into /etc/hosts