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Tzury Bar Yochay
Asked: 2011-05-24 20:14:24 +0800 CST

Disabling login prompt and/or VGA output

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On a network appliance I am building, based on Ubuntu server I wish to perform the following customizations:

  1. Disable the VGA output so if one connect a screen nothing will appear. This however shall not affect the ability to connect to the machine with ssh and control it
  2. If that is not possible without re-compiling the kernel (action I wish to avoid as much as possible), I at least want that when machine boot completes, it will not show the login prompt, rather my own custom message.

How can I get either one of the above options

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  1. Best Answer

    To disable textual login on virtual terminal tty1...tty6, you can modify /etc/init/tty1.conf (and the other from tty2.conf to tty6.conf), substituting the line

    exec /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

    with something like the following:

    exec /sbin/getty -8 -n -l /usr/local/bin/tty-replacement 38400 tty1

    where /usr/local/bin/tty-replacement can be a simple shell script like this:

    #!/bin/sh

echo ""
echo "This is a message"
echo ""
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    This should not prevent ssh login, that has nothing to do with ttys.

    Remember to make the shell script executable with

    sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/tty-replacement
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