Banners and PIDS

[Nathan England]

Why are you even using telnet to begin with???



----- Original Message -----
From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: Banners and PIDS


> Correct.  The original question was "How to a post a banner
> msg when my users telnet into my Linux box" - nothing to do with
> logging in.  Hence my answer about issue.net.
>
> George
>
>
> "David A. Sinck" wrote:
> >
> > \_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 8/3/2001 06:46 as having spake thusly:
> > \_
> > \_ Edit /etc/issue.net.  /etc/rc3.d/S99local (if present) will overwrite
> > \_ issue.net, so make your changes there.
> > \_
> > \_ George
> > \_
> > \_
> > \_ Dominic Busher wrote:
> > \_ >
> > \_ > I have two questions. First, How to a post a banner
> > \_ > msg when my users telnet into my Linux box?  I tried
> > \_ > putting banner = {file} in my telnet file but that did
> > \_ > not work.
> >
> > I believe there's a slight difference:
> >
> > /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are pre-login banner messages, /etc/motd
> > is post-login banner message, IIRC.
> >
> > The favorite /etc/issue.net that I built was
> >
> > '             lamers need not '
> >
> > with *no* return, so the prompt came out
> >
> >               lamers need not login:
> >
> > David
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