My first response is Ahah! Exactly what I want...alas, agetty does not currently run on OpenBSD. It seems to use termio.h, rather than the POSIX termios.h. OpenBSD only has support for the latter.

I understand that it's not too bad to redefine constants based on the changes between the two files, but that may be a bit much for what i'm expected to do here. I really don't want to go through a 1232 line program and port it to a different operating system.

So naturally, my second response was "Bummer."

But you did clue me in on something - I need to find an alternative getty program suppported under OpenBSD, that allows the configuration to dictate whether or not a username is required. I've checked the OpenBSD ports tree, and find only mgetty as an alternative. In order to get the man page with little effort, I did start to install mgetty, and this is what I got: 

bash-2.04# cd /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax/
bash-2.04# make install
===>  mgetty-1.1.21 is marked as broken: insecure tempfile handling: can overwrite any file on the system.

Probably not what I'm after :(

So I guess I'll check out FreeBSD and see what alternative getty's are available there...I can probably install some of them without major difficulty.

All the same, thank you for the assistance!

In reply to Re: Re: Replacing getty with a perl script? by ginseng
in thread Replacing getty with a perl script? by ginseng

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