Bug 1006462

Summary: RFE: allow \S escape that defaults to PRETTY_NAME in /etc/issue handling
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Juraj Marko <jmarko>
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Version: 7.0CC: ctatman, joseph.szczypek, karen.skweres, linda.knippers, nigel.croxon, nlevinki, rvokal, tom.vaden, trinh.dao
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Fixed In Version: util-linux-2.23.2-5.el7 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:02:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 801536, 909224, 1009944    

Description Bill Nottingham 2013-09-10 16:18:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

As discussed via e-mail. Filing here for tracking.

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So, crazy idea:

Adds a \S escape to agetty, to pretty name from /etc/os-release.
We're working on some code for flexible product branding for RHEL, and while
we can rewrite /etc/os-release on branding changes easily, having to rewrite
/etc/issue and friends is a bit ugly. 
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Comment 2 Karel Zak 2013-09-12 11:01:35 UTC 
Implemented by upstream commit b34f097e756ab2c762b1ce0f8c9813dbc7e3e308.
Comment 8 Trinh 2014-01-14 16:41:32 UTC 
Chris, is this fix in RHEL7 Snapshot-1?
Comment 11 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:02:30 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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