[James Valleroy] > Several users have reported booting and getting to the login prompt at a > console, and not being sure what to do next. > > We can add a message to /etc/issue with instructions on how to access > Plinth after initial boot.
I ran into this need when I tested FreedomBox using a RPi on a network without any DHCP server and thus had to figure out how to find the machine while avahi did not work because it did not have an IP address. I agree that we should provide our own text on the tty login screen. But modifying /etc/issue will cause upgrade problems, as this is a conffile owned by the base-files package. If we modify it, the base-files package will no longer be automatically upgradable and the upgrade process will get a conffile question if the old or the new version should be kept. I guess we have two options - dpkg-divert of /etc/issues or rewriting /etc/inittab. Diverting conffiles is not recommended by the dpkg-divert manual page, so I guess rewriting inittab is our only option. But I believe it is going to cause problems in the when the package creating the inittab file change the content slightly. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
