Change login message (banner)?

[Grater]

What file sets the login message for Solaris? I need to add some
warning messages before a user logs in (telnet and at console). I am know
Linux uses /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, but I am unfamiliar with Solaris.

[Edmond van As]

Hi,

You can create the file '/etc/motd' with a message in it, the user sees the
message when logging in.

Regards,

Edmond

[Xander Buys]

Hi,

/etc/motd

motd = 'message of the day'

[Robert Barnes]

Actually,
The motd comes up AFTER login. If you want to put up
a banner BEFORE login and have Solaris 2.6 or greater,
you want /etc/default/telnetd. man telnetd for details.
-bob

[Rick Frey]

I am trying to change the message shown before a user logs in. The
"motd" is the message shown after the user logs in.

[Nathan Dorfman]

In comp.unix.solaris, "Rick Frey" <12...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I am trying to change the message shown before a user logs in. The
>"motd" is the message shown after the user logs in.

/etc/issue is displayed before the login: prompt of getty and telnetd
logins.

>>You can create the file '/etc/motd' with a message in it, the user sees the
>>message when logging in.

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[Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer]

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Robert Barnes <bar...@erols.com> writes:

>Actually,
> The motd comes up AFTER login. If you want to put up
>a banner BEFORE login and have Solaris 2.6 or greater,
>you want /etc/default/telnetd. man telnetd for details.

/etc/issue: - before login
/etc/default/telnetd - login banner (2.6+)
/etc/motd - after login

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[Rick Frey]

Thanks- that is what I was looking for.

[Joseph Kane]

If you are not running Solaris 2.6 or later then do the following:

1. mv /bin/login /bin/login.orig

2. edit a script using vi (or whatever) called /bin/login to look
like:

#!/bin/sh
echo
"******************************************************************"
echo "* WARNING: To protect the system from unauthorized use and to
*"
echo "* ensure that the system is functioning properly, activities on
*"
echo "* this system are monitored and recorded and subject to audit.
*"
echo "* Use of this system is expressed consent to such monitoring and
*"
echo "* recording. Any unauthorized access will result in users being
*"
echo "* shot or hanged or both
*"
echo
"******************************************************************"
echo
exec /usr/bin/login.orig $*
exit 0

Last telnet to the machine from the current login session and make sure
you didn't screw anything up (before logging off).

>Robert Barnes wrote:
>
> Actually,
> The motd comes up AFTER login. If you want to put up
> a banner BEFORE login and have Solaris 2.6 or greater,
> you want /etc/default/telnetd. man telnetd for details.

[Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer]

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Joseph Kane <kan...@NetHeaven.com> writes:

>If you are not running Solaris 2.6 or later then do the following:

> 1. mv /bin/login /bin/login.orig

> 2. edit a script using vi (or whatever) called /bin/login to look
>like:

>#!/bin/sh

This is about what /etc/issue does.

[Yuri V.Tenishev]

You can use /etc/issue ,as you did it on linux .
/etc/issue starts before login and before /etc/motd

Robert Barnes пишет:

> Actually,
> The motd comes up AFTER login. If you want to put up
> a banner BEFORE login and have Solaris 2.6 or greater,
> you want /etc/default/telnetd. man telnetd for details.
> -bob
> Xander Buys wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > /etc/motd
> >
> > motd = 'message of the day'
> >
> > Grater wrote:
> >
> > > What file sets the login message for Solaris? I need to add some
> > > warning messages before a user logs in (telnet and at console). I am know
> > > Linux uses /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, but I am unfamiliar with Solaris.

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