topic How to change the login prompt in Operating System - Linux

How to change the login prompt

Deny DeRosier_1 — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:38:43 GMT

We have a couple of HP-UX 10.20 servers and I would like to modify the login prompt to display the id of that server. How do I do that?

Re: How to change the login prompt

Alexander M. Ermes — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:19:18 GMT

Hi there.
Put this into the .profile :

export PS1=`hostname`','`whoami`',$PWD,!> '

for Oracle users :

export PS1=`hostname`','`whoami`',${ORACLE_SID:-"none"},$PWD,!
> '

Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: How to change the login prompt

Felix J. Liu — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:57:23 GMT

I guess Deny means the text displayed before user login.

Look at /etc/issue and /etc/issue/net

One is for console and the other for network logins.

You also need to comment out the part in /etc/rc.d/rc.local that will overwrite your /etc/issue everytime you reboot your system.

Hope this helps.

Re: How to change the login prompt

avsrinivas_1 — Thu, 24 May 2001 09:00:33 GMT

To change the login prompt in HPUX 10.20

simply edit the /etc/issue file of each system
to display the corresponding system names.

No rc.local file is needed to be modified.
Because in HPUX 10.20 the FS is been changed to
10FSL. here the startup scripts are placed in
/sbin/rc* directories for each runlevel and
the configuration files are in /etc/rc.config.d
directory.

Happy Tuning.