Hey linux fans,

I know how to play an audio file or use festival to say a text message when there is a successful login. For example in my /etc/profile, I added this line at the bottom

echo welcome back $USER | festival --tts

So when I, david or root logs in, it play the audio
"welcome back david" or "welcome back root"

But, how do I do the opposite. If I enter the wrong password by mistake, I would like festival to say something as an example "get lost loser, try again" lol

If you know which file I need to edit or add to it, I greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Are you doing a text or GUI login? If GUI, what desktop environment do you use?

I know GDM has the ability to play a sound file on failed login. I don't see a method for arbitrary command execution, but it would handle a common prerecorded sound. I haven't checked into login and I am not that familiar with KDE or other DEs.

text prompt.

I've poked around in login, getty and PAM and didn't see any hooks for doing what you want. I've wondered if somebody who knew quite a bit more about PAM than I do could come up with a way to do it via PAM. Other than that, you could modify login to do what you want rather than simply print "Login incorrect."

I've also thought about a real kludge that might work. That would be to change the entry in /etc/inittab for respawning getty (or mgetty or some such) to where it first called a script for playing the desired audio. You would want to put in place a mechanism where it wouldn't be triggered on the first time it was spawned and it wouldn't trigger after a successful login. And hope that it never respawned just because something burped. Also it would only play the message after the number of tries login allows.

It's OK, it's not that important. At least I can play or say a text message via festival after a successful login.

Thanks again blackhole54 for your replies.