a login question

hello everyone,

When we telnet a linux box,we get the following messenge usually:

Redhat linux
abc login:

how to conceal the hostname information--abc? that is the welcome messenge as following:

Redhat linux
login:

THANKS
:)

Bill J.Xu

following:

1) This is off-topic for a *kernel* list.

2) This is bogus security - they telnet'ed to the machine, they already *know* its name/IP address. You should leave the hostname in so legitimate users can verify they've gotten to the *right* machine (what, you've never had a server farm with dozens/hundreds of machines and typed 'telnet foo23' when you meant 'telnet foo24'?)

3) You should be using SSH instead.

4) /usr/sbin/telnetd invokes /bin/login which calls pam. The hostname gets printed after telnetd does /etc/issue. Since I think it's a bad idea, that's all the hints I'm giving today. The answer can be found in the telnet, util-linux, and/or PAM src.rpm's. If you're going to mess with this, you should learn how it works, and reading the source is a good way to do that...