Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think some people may not be happy about them, is there an option to > deactivate the login shell? I just ask for completeness, I am happy to have > it active as default.
It is universally agreed that this is an important thing. The way you do it is specify the shell for the pseudo-user `login' to be something other than /bin/bash. In particular, if you set the shell for `login' to be /bin/loginpr, then you will get the traditional prompting version of login. A no-uid login does a complete login for the password file entry `login' (except that the UID and GID for that entry are ignored). What getty starts on a new terminal line is a UID-free login. So whatever the shell is for the pseudo-user `login' is what you get when a terminal first goes live. Normally that's /bin/bash, but users are free to change it to /bin/loginpr instead. Thomas
