Rahul Jindal forced the electrons to say: > I hope you rememer telling me about patching mingetty. > > but a very stupid question is how do i do that? > there isn't a mingetty.c in my system ony one /sbin/mingetty. Please - on the list, not personal mail. I am not a helpdesk for linux. You need the source code of mingetty - if you are on an RPM based system, you can find the source RPM either in your distribution CDs, your distribution's FTP site and its mirrors, or on rpmfind.net. For RedHat 6.2, the source RPM is available from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.2/SRPMS/SRPMS rpm -i mingetty-whatever.src.rpm rpm -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/mingetty.spec cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mingetty-<version> Edit the file mingetty.c. In particular, look for the line that looks like #define LOGIN " login: " and change the stuff within quotes to whatever you like. Then run make install in that directory. Go to an unused console and try control-D to see if your changes have taken effect. I'm sure someone will tell you about non-RPM distributions. Binand Homework: Try changing the "press ctrl-alt-del to logon" window... ---------------------------------------------- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose. Violations of the rules of this list will result in stern action.
