Re: [cobalt-users] Change Telnet welcome msg

[Charlie Clemmer <cclemmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, you have it reversed. It is /etc/issue that gets displayed prior 
to login, and /etc/motd that gets displayed after a user has successfully 
authenticated. If you check your /etc directory, you'll see there can be 
individual motds that are user specific, for instance /etc/admin.motd is 
only displayed to the admin user after successful authentication.

At 10:30 PM 4/21/01 -0300, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
By the way, your answer here is either wrong or incomplete. /etc/motd is 
called by login and shown *before* the client logs in along with the login 
prompt. /etc/issue is shown by telnet *after* you've logged in with an 
acceptable username/password combo.