Re: How do you change the Linux Login prompt?

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From: Steve Merrifield
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:00

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James Harper (loon@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: Richard Bywater (bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz) wrote:
: : dlyon@ipacific.net.au wrote:

: : : Whenever anyone logs in they see the prompt:

: : :  Red Hat Linux release 3.0.3 (Picasso)
: : :  Kernel 1.2.13 on a i486

: : : Where is this specified as I need to go in and change it.

: : /etc/issue I think.  And the thing that comes up after you login in is 
: : /etc/motd

: what about the one that comes up when you finger a machine, as i have
: seen in some slackware installations?

You can find this one in /etc/issue.net On my machines, /etc/issue.net is
a symlink to /etc/issue. Makes life easier 8-)

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From: sjm@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Steve Merrifield)
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Date: 1996/09/06
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