Router banners

Andrew Partan asp at partan.com
Wed Nov 21 17:15:34 UTC 2001


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:44:58PM -0000, Mark Cooper wrote:
> It looks like the ?login script thinks it's already logged in due
> to the presence of the > in both banners.

Yup.  We had to ban some characters in banners (and other motds)
- no > or #.

The trickest part about clogin (et al) is recognizing the prompt
correctly.  [expect turns out to be a horrible language for writting
anything complicated in.]

Looks like this needs to be added to the FAQ.
	--asp



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