On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: > >Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? > >/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff > >like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. > > I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to emit a pre-login > greeting/warning/whatever, and was unrelated to login.
Yes, you are right. The one for network logins is /etc/netissue or issue-net or some such. It's been years since I went anywhere near that stuff, and wetware RAM is notoriously bad ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
