Login question

[Brian Ham]

How do I edit the information at the login screen on a HP-UX 11.0 server?

HP-UX servername B.11.00 U 9000/800 (tc)

login:

Thanks

[Kellogg Unix Team · Accepted solution]

edit /etc/issue file

[John Poff]

Hi,

You can change that information by editing your /etc/issue file, and then setting the banner option to use the /etc/issue file (-b /etc/issue) for the telnetd daemon in your /etc/inetd.conf file, like this:

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd -b /etc/issue

After that, you'll need to get the inetd daemon to re-read the inetd.conf file, so you'll have to do (as root):

inetd -c


The next time you open a telnet session you should see the contents of your /etc/issue file before the login prompt.

JP

[S.K. Chan]

The file is /etc/issue. It's a text file which you can simply edit and changes is effective imediately.

[Pete Randall]

Hi Brian,

There are a couple of good suggestions in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x2976107d277ad611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Pete