issue.net5
Identification file for telnet sessions
Overview
The file /etc/issue.net is a text file which contains a message or system identification to be printed before the login prompt of a telnet session. It may contain various `%-char' sequences. The following sequences are supported by telnetd:
- %t
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- show the current tty
- %h
-
- show the system node name (FQDN)
- %D
-
- show the name of the NIS domain
- %d
-
- show the current time and date
- %s
-
- show the name of the operating system
- %m
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- show the machine (hardware) type
- %r
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- show the operating system release
- %v
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- show the operating system version
- %%
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- display a single '%' character
Files
/etc/issue.net
Releases
18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 6 times.