Change login: prompt

[Wander Boessenkool]

On 6/16/06, Tom Smith <tom71713-ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to change the login prompt so that it displays the full
> domain name before it.
> I've looked primarily into getty (but also into init, inittab, issue)
> and have been unable to find a solution to this problem.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions as to where I might find the
> information to change such a thing?

If you only want to change the prompt on virtual-consoles
(ctr-alt-f[1-6]) you might look into the package mingetty. Afaik the
"${hostname} login:" prompt is hardcoded into getty, with mingetty you
can use the -p option. You will have to change the references to getty
in /etc/inittab to mingetty. Be careful with this, I would start with
only changing tty6 to begin with.

>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
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