title: Display colored text in centos login screen
body: <p>This is about the login screen shown by <code>getty</code> after system boots up.  My centos boots with runlevel 3.  This means I expect to see a login screen in the console and I do.</p>
  <p>By default the <code>TERM</code> is set to <code>linux</code> with 8 bit color scheme.  I wanted to print the formatted login text with different color.  I tried setting <code>TERM</code> to <code>screen-256color</code> or <code>xterm-256color</code> or <code>term-256color</code> but non really gave true 256 color experience.</p>
  <p>What options I have without re-compiling the kernal to have 256 color screen in the <code>getty</code> terminal login prompt?</p>
  <p>Please note that I am not looking for color terminal profile post login.  There it works fine.</p>