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Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
This modification adds a new gettytab(5) option (iM) to specify a
program to run that will generate the initial (banner) message that is
displayed before the login prompt. Such a capability is useful when
dynamic information is needed in the banner message that cannot be
supplied by the set of % substitution sequences available in the "im"
option.
Reviewed by: vangyzen, wblock, manpages
Approved by: vangyzen (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12108
in question is PPP-only line, i.e. no PPP-sequence detection is necessary and
PPP login program referenced by `pp' should be started automatically instead of
login(1)
Feature suggested and sponsored by: United Networks of Ukraine
No reply from: re
MFC after: 2 weeks
damn useful thing for using with serial consoles in clusters etc or secure
console locations. Using a custom gettytab entry for console with
an entry like 'al=root' means that there is *always* a root login ready on
the console. This should replace hacks like those which go with conserver
etc. (This is a loaded gun, watch out for those feet!)
Submitted by: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
emitting the initial prompt.
This is useful in a number of circumstances :
- you have (a) stupid modem(s) that assert(s) DCD too soon.
- you have dialin users with stupid diallers and poorly
written chatscripts. (esp. some Winsock diallers)
BSD/OS also has this capability.
Submitted by: damian@cablenet.net (Damian Hamill)
COMPAT_43 cruft. This is supposedly the last core utility that has
been using it! (So now, one should be able to remove this option from
the config files. Be aware that the last officially released xterm
however still requires it.)
The getty has been running now for several weeks on my modem line, so
i feel safe about it.
Obtained from: mostly from the NetBSD vendor-branch