[LAU] [ot] chaing the login-prompt

[Mark Knecht]

???

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/prompt-magic.xml

Don't know if it works for the console login but I suspect it does.

If this doesn't work then I know there is some way to do it. We can
find it for you. I'll ask the Gentoo folks.

- Mark

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>   I'm sorry, I know I have been a bit off-topicy recently. I promise to get
> better. But there is one question left:
>   Is there a way - short of hacking login.c from the shadow package - to
> change the login prompt, which usually says:
> hostname login:
>   ? I tried and tried, read a lot of stuff, but mostly about the shell prompt
> or the graphical login managers. Any idea about the console? I found francine
> from the fancy login project, but even it only offered "login:" and
> "password:" at certain positions on the screen.
>   I eventually ended up building login from source and changing the
> loginprompt, but couldn't get to the "Password:" prompt. I know it's aa bit
> silly, but I simply can't believe, that with so much configurability you can't
> change this!
>   Kindest regards
>           Julien
>
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