From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
To: 44347@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44347: mingetty --no-clear is hard-coded
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:16:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9da4da56-c557-19be-fac6-f8b9ab8541c5@gmail.com> (raw)
The --no-clear option is hard-coded for mingetty, with no documentation
about why. The mingetty page says,
--noclear
Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login
name (the
screen is normally cleared).
I do not think I am alone in preferring the screen cleared after logout.
I also think it could be a security issue. For now my workaround is to
include a call to "tput reset" or "clear" in my .bash_logout script, but
that has to be configured for every user and requires more packages
installed either at the system level or per-user.
I think this is an "easy for beginners" issue. I would fix it myself,
but I have a lot of other stuff to do.
next reply other threads:[~2020-10-31 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-31 15:16 Jesse Gibbons [this message]
2020-11-01 16:30 ` bug#44347: mingetty --no-clear is hard-coded Mark H Weaver
2020-11-01 16:37 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-11-01 22:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-03 17:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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