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- From: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: New "official" motd
- Keywords: motd
- Message-ID: <jpe.724341910@ee.egr.duke.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:05:10 GMT
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- bdixon@wap.oau.org (Bill Dixon) writes:
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- >In article <jpe.723910551@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
- >>While we're on this subject of the MOTD notice. Will that actually do
- >>the job? ...
-
- >Why not change the login herald so that the notice is displayed at each
- >login? On AIX, the herald is in /etc/security/login.cfg, and can be
- >changed to anything you want [...]
-
- This is true and I've already looked at the possibility, but I handle 6
- architecture/OS combinations and each handles login banners its own way.
- Like an earlier posting stipulated, some login banners are limited in
- size, so it just won't work to do that on all my systems. I guess I
- could just do it on my central machine (an RS6k), since that would be
- the most likely entry point for an intruder.
-
- One thing to note is that if someone were to breakin via a users remote
- account (a la ~/.rhosts) a login banner would not be displayed. So that
- kills the login banner idea.
-
- -John
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