do you mean your terminal emulation or the actual ttyxxx that it creates. If you mean terminal type you can insert thr folloing command
into you .bash_profile in the user login dir
TERM=vt100 or wyse50/60 or ansi etc..
if you mean the latter than I would like to know as well.

Bill Warner wrote:

> What controls the tty for a remote login before you
> actually login?  On redhat we cant seem to change
> the default to anything else, and a windows telnet
> client that we use for our server application is
> not getting backspace right.
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