Re: Replacing /bin/login with an application/script?

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

I know that mgetty is marked broken in the ports tree due to security
concerns but it sounds like you feel you're environment is fairly secure.

With mgetty you can define the program to spawn when it gets tickled.

my US$.02

diana

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tobias Weingartner wrote:

> On Thursday, September 14, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:27:18PM -0500, Justin C. Darby wrote:
> > > Much easier solution, disabling login and getty will break terminal
> > > control.
> > 
> > Not what I want though.  Must be some way to replace 'login' with an
> > 'application login' screen instead. 
> 
> Well, X/xdm "replace" 'login' with an 'application login' screen, so given
> enough code, anything is possible...  Will it necessarily be easy to do?
> 
> Hmm, I'd have to check, but I do believe that getty does throw up the first
> "login:" portion of a terminal/serial login.  That being said, there is
> nothing that says you have to run getty on a terminal, you could disable
> getty on the console (what/wherever) completely, and have your own program
> do with the terminal whatever it wants to.  Of course, you will then also
> have to deal with terminal setup, etc...
> 
> --Toby.
> 
> 
> 
> 



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