dtlogin Message dialogue

[Greg Crocker_1]

I am setting up an HP-UX machine which must have a disclaimer shown to the user before the login can begin. Unfortunately, the disclaimer is quite large, at about 1800 bytes it fills the entire terminal window when displayed. I have placed the disclaimer in the /etc/issue file and now that message is displayed to all users who connect via telnet (this is on a closed network and ssh it not needed).

I would like to know how to display this same disclaimer in the dialogue provided by dtlogin. I have tried editing the /etc/dt/config/Xconfig file and I was not able to get Dtlogin*labelString to work. If this is not possible I would like to prevent dtlogin from starting until the user has indicated the he/she had read the disclaimer (pressing Enter, etc). It would be preferred that the machine would still boot to X as I have not found a way for normal users to start the X server. If this is possible that would be a solution as well.

Thanks in advance!

Greg

[Zafar A. Mohammed_1]

Check this, it might be helpful

http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin?h=3&dn=52676&q=Preventing%20dtlogin%20sessions&fh

-Zafar

[Greg Crocker_1]

What I am looking for is a way to display a message box containing my disclaimer to the user (and force the user to achnowledge the message box) before the user is allowed to log into X.

An alternate solution would be to allow the users to start X themselves, but when I try to launch dtlogin (or the S990dtlogin.rc) script, I get an error about not being root.

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Greg,

this may help:
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062922869

JP.

[Mark Grant]

I have done this a long time ago. It all got a bit funky but it worked well.

You need to decide how you are going to display this Disclaimer, probably using "xmessage" or something and put the command in the Xstartup file which I think is in /usr/dt/config/Xstartup. This file gets executed before the login box appears.

[Rick Beldin · Accepted solution]

dtgreet will display the contents of /etc/copyright. You could modify this file and it would be displayed in the blue screen that immediately follows successful login.

You can also change the 'welcome' message by copying the file /usr/dt/config/Xresources to /etc/dt/config and making changes to the resources:

Dtlogin*greeting.labelString

A trusted system environment also adds last successful and unsuccessful loging to the copyright screen.,