francine is an easy to configure themeable console login program. Its great configurability for per tty access-settings and the posibility to put the prompt for username and password anywhere within a nicely colored ANSI-screen makes it a greatly enhanced replacement for the old clumpy login. . You need a getty that is able to run different programs than just login. I suggest rungetty for that, but (alternative) getty does suffice. It can also be used from the telnetd with the -L option. . This project is a spin-off from the fancylogin project, which is still maintained by Richard Bergmair.