Re: Legality of warnings

[jviehweg () ahhgo com (J. A. Viehweg)]

> I recently saw an article on comp.security.unix concerning the 
> need for posting warnings (i.e. of the don't log in w/o authorization
> variety) at the login prompt.  I vaguely remember a way to do this
> on AIX- some file which contains the login message displayed on
> the console and when the system is serving telnet.
>
> 1) Does anyone remember the name of this file?
>
> 2) Is there an equivalent file in SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3?
>
> Thanks!

I don't know about SunOS 4.1.3 but there is a file in SYS V Rel 4
(Solaris 2.3 is based on this) called /etc/issue that is sent to
the terminal before the login: prompt.  It is ususally sent to
the console and network connections, but not necessarily sent to
serial connections (I'm still trying to figure that one out).

Hope this helps.

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