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bug#44347: mingetty --no-clear is hard-coded


From: Jesse Gibbons
Subject: bug#44347: mingetty --no-clear is hard-coded
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:16:19 -0600
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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.





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