LOGIN MESSAGES
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Simeon Warner - 31May98, 8Jun98


Standard Red Hat linux uses Red Hat names and kernel type for login
messages. This seems to be just one more way of telling hackers lots
about our system. Better with something less explicit. Files are:

/etc/issue.net
  Message issued for network login (rlogin or telnet). Set to
  
  PPPP        PPPP
  P   P       P   P
  PPPP   OO   PPPP
  P     O  O  P
  P      OO   P


/etc/issue
  Message issued to console. Doesn't really matter, set to
  
  ------------ PoP (pop01) ------------
  Red Hat Linux release 5.0 (Hurricane)
  Kernel 2.0.32 on an i686


/etc/motd
  Message displayed after successful login. Use to give users current
  system information.
  
The two issue files (issue.net and issue) seem to be overwritten when
Linux is booted. I do not know where this done so to get around it
I have created files /etc/issue.pop and /etc/issue.net.pop which
are copied to /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net at boot time from 
/etc/inittab:

  Pa:3:once:cp /etc/issue.pop /etc/issue
  Pb:3:once:cp /etc/issue.net.pop /etc/issue.net

Rather ugly... but it works!

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