/etc/issue vs /etc/issue.net in shell.c

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com
Fri Nov 21 14:53:41 UTC 2014


On 11/21/2014 1:38 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 20/11/14 22:08, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We have different code to process these two files on login.
>> Can someone point me to a standard source which says
>> what is supposed to be handled in each one?
>>
>> Should we really have both paths?
>>
> One is for telnet:
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue.net
>
> One for the normal login:
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue
>
I got that from the code. What standard/RFC/etc. requires that
they be divergent?

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