Silent `login' (was: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386)

Paul Nash paul at frcs.UUCP
Mon Feb 18 05:12:14 AEST 1991


Thus spake davidg at aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane):

> New, but related subject: when ISC fires up after the login it puts
> this really grotesque series of lines about copyrights and such
> which I would like to get rid of. Anybody know if this is possible?

I dunno if it will work on Interactive, but Intel V.3.2 is easy
to fix: ``xvi /bin/login'', search for `%s', and slap in a few
NULL's (end the printf string before it starts).  Works a treat.
You can do the same to getty, to get rid of the crap that it
insists on spewing out aswell.


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