Re: odd login prompt

[dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Daniel Martin at cush)]

Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:

> On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it
> appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed.  My prompt is
> something like0 "Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n".  On initial login it is fine. 
> I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit enter at the
> login prompt.

This would seem to imply that getty (which issues the first prompt)
parses /etc/issue, but login (which issues subsequent login prompts)
does not.  I'd file a bug against login.


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