On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:19:13PM +0100, Kutter, Peter wrote: > hello, > i want to logon with my chipcard. therefore i dont want to write my username at the login process. the username should be read from the card directly and given to the login process. So i did not find a conlusion to this problem by PAM i decided to rewrite the login.c file. Has anyone experiences with this problem or has anyone rewritten the login process ? > Thanks I think you'll find that wont solve your problem. On most systems, the "login: " prompt you get initially is not from the `login' program, but it is from a console getty. After it gets the username, it then turns over control to the login program. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` bcollins@debian.org -- bcollins@openldap.org -- bcollins@linux.com ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'