Re: [cobalt-users] Change Telnet welcome msg

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 4/22/01 01:58 AM -0500, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.

Which just goes to show we all screw up sometime. Thanks for the correction.

The rest of my message will show that some part of my head knew that... the 
text you quoted shows that I need more sleep, or that my head as a whole 
needs work. <smile>


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx