removing HP copyright info from login sequence

[Mike Tufariello]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone knew how to surpress or prevent the displaying of the HP copyright info during log in or when you switch users. We capture the login sequence in emails and in log files. This would help reduce the size of the emails and log files.

Thanks,

[OldSchool · Accepted solution]

see the following thread, especially the last post.

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1210351073280+28353475&threadId=1121363

which refers you to here:
http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c00932256-1&docLocale=en&admit=109447626+1210351164448+28353475


complete removal violates the licensing agreement(s)

[Torsten.]

copyright information is in /etc/copyright.

[OldSchool]

also this, for CDE

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1210351334402+28353475&threadId=979238

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Mike

If you are under HP support, then you should not risk removing this... just in case.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Mike Tufariello]

Thanks very much to all.

[Torsten.]

You are welcome. Now you know about where it comes from and about the possible legal issues ...

[Torsten.]

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Finally (and this applies to almost every second thread in this forum - I remember the "rm -fr *" thread these days), if you are root, you can do everything ... just think about the possible consequences before doing anything.


Good luck! ;-)

[Steven Schweda]

I recently cured this annoyance on one of my
systems. I saved the original file, and
created an empty one with the same
permissions. (As I recall, someone
complained if it was missing.)

> If you are under HP support, [...]

When I hear the Software Police breaking down
my door, I'll be sure to (have my lawyer)
notify you. When in doubt, read the license
agreement. (Or, put the original file back
before admitting the HP guy. Write a script
for emergency use, if you feel the need.)

[Bill Hassell]

Actually, it is not necessary to display the copyright message for every login. Instead, information concerning the existence of the copyright is considered to be ample notification, just like thousands of other intellectual properties such as music, books, plays, TV programs, movies, etc. You can change the line in /etc/profile to read like this:

print "To read the HP copyright, use the command: cat /etc/copyright"

This gives explicit information that a copyright exists and how to read it. Naturally, I am not a lawyer and I don't even play a lawyer on TV...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Mike,

I recommend you have the system untouched.

I recall being in Israel on vacation one time and someone making a change that took down one of my HP-UX servers.

I was in Jerusalem and by the time I was reached, they had an HP-UX expert from HP crawling all over my system.

I hadn't done anything bad, turns out the entire problem came from a cisco guy changing the port configuration on a network switch.

Moral is, if you do this, you may find that it gets discovered when you are unable to run your emergency script to restore the system to normal.

Just let the text display and concentrate on something important, thats my advice.

sEP

[Mike Tufariello]

Again, thanks to all.