login-prompt 1 user commands nosh login-promptsimple chain-load getty for prompting before login login-prompt next-prog login-prompt is a chain-loading utility that prompts to standard output, waits for standard input to have data ready, flushes standard input with the tcflush3 function, and then (if successful) chain loads to next-prog with the execvp3 function. next-prog may contain its own command line options, which login-prompt will ignore. This program is primarily used in TTY login services, but is only necessary therein if next-prog has timeout functionality that cannot be switched off, as is the case for FreeBSD /usr/bin/login. login-prompt effectively delays running that program, and commencing the timeout, until the user has responded to a prompt. This prevents login processes that timeout from continually respawning on unused terminals. This can be used as a means to defer running a login program until a user has actually presssed Enter on a terminal. login-prompt expects the terminal and the line discipline to be in relatively sane states. To reset to these states, run vc-reset-terminal1 or reset1 before login-prompt. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard