[LAU] [ot] chaing the login-prompt

[Gwenhwyfaer]

On 23/09/2009, 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:

As far as I can tell, that's the province of whatever getty you're
using, rather than /bin/login. A quick check on a handy Slack install
revealed that agetty doesn't support changing the login prompt;
however, ngetty does, qingy might, and fgetty is so tiny that it
should be trivial to hack on.