On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:50:17PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On May 20, 2020 9:31:19 PM UTC, Edgar Pettijohn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Valdrin MUJA wrote:
> >> Hi Misc,
> >>
> >> I have an interactive shell program which has an authentication
> >section and I want to login via my program. How can I do that?
> >>
> >> Actually I want to run this program instead of /bin/ksh. I changed
> >the root's shell with "chsh -s /bin/{my_program} root" command.
> >However, when the system boots, firstly OpenBSD Login is coming and
> >after that my program is running.
> >>
> >> In short, I want to run an external program on startup without
> >OpenBSD Login.
> >
> >I believe login(1) is executed by getty(8) which is started by init(8).
> >So you would likely have to make changes to one or more of them. But I
> >could be wrong.
> >
> >Edgar
>
> I believe /etc/ttys controls getty, which may or not help. Getty is respawned
> too.
> https://man.openbsd.org/man5/ttys.5
I think you're right. Might just need to change a line in /etc/ttys to
execute /bin/{my_program}.
Edgar
