how to change login messages

[Erkan]

Hi,
I am using HPUX11. And I am forcing users to change their password at least one time in a month. As users don't understand English, usually they cannot change their passwords when the system automatically wants them to change their password. So, how can I change the messages appearing at login screen?
Thanks.

[twang]

you can add your login message to /etc/issue

[Bruno Vidal]

Hi,
If your user are using telnet, you can modify the /etc/issue to put in it any message. It is displayed, before any logging action. You can also edit /etc/motd, but is is displayed after the loggin has been succesfull.

Cheers.

[Michael Tully]

You can use two methods. The first is /etc/issue, which displays above the login prompt, which you place your message and then make sure that you have the lines in /etc/inetd.conf file pointing to it.

telnet ..... -b /etc/issue

login ... rlogin ... -B /etc/issue

The other is the usage of the /etc/motd file, which is displayed after the login has commenced.

Regards
Michael
"When I have trouble spelling, it's called fat finger syndrome."

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Use /etc/issue if you want the message displayed before the login: prompt.

use /etc/motd if you want the message displayed after the login


Regards
Rainer

[twang]

in addition, you may also add message in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile

[Lior Mishkovsky]

Hi,

There are 2 files that you can change:

1. /etc/issue.
2. /etc/motd.

Lior./

[Bill Douglass]

HP-UX supports Native Language Service (NLS), for supporting different language requirements on an hp-ux system. See the man page for lang for starters.

Depending on the language of your users (and whether it is uniform or mixed across groups) you can install an appropriate locale (man lang) for the desired language and set the LANG environment variable. Then commands like login and passwd will pull their messages from the appropriate message catalogue (in /usr/lib/nls).

[Zeev Schultz]

Well you can also put whatever message you
like into file and do some cron stuff with
wall command,sending message in the file to
all logged users.

Zeev

[Dario_1]

Hi!!!

/etc/issue or /etc/motd

Regards,

DR