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| author | nwhitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-20 18:15:06 +0000 |
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| committer | nwhitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-20 18:15:06 +0000 |
| commit | 875e23de1fa47e9bee345d3bfe18237970db0b83 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e3148296da1dfbb27b5f98e69f14f2485a72627 /libexec | |
| parent | 094f2691cab2836b1d441da0c8e114c402630dc1 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-875e23de1fa47e9bee345d3bfe18237970db0b83.zip FreeBSD-src-875e23de1fa47e9bee345d3bfe18237970db0b83.tar.gz | |
Add a new flag to /etc/ttys: onifconsole. This is equivalent to "on" if the
device is an active kernel console and "off" otherwise. This is designed to
allow serial-booting x86 systems to provide a login prompt on the serial line
by default without providing one on all systems by default.
Comments and suggestions by: grehan, dteske, jilles
MFC after: 1 month
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/getty/ttys.5 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/getty/ttys.5 b/libexec/getty/ttys.5 index 18151c9..71a4b2b 100644 --- a/libexec/getty/ttys.5 +++ b/libexec/getty/ttys.5 @@ -102,8 +102,11 @@ ttys as a group. .Pp As flag values, the strings ``on'' and ``off'' specify that .Xr init 8 -should (should not) execute the command given in the second field, -while ``secure'' (if ``on'' is also specified) allows users with a +should (should not) execute the command given in the second field. +``onifconsole'' will cause this line to be enabled if and only if it is +an active kernel console device (it is equivalent to ``on'' in this +case). +The flag ``secure'' (if the console is enabled) allows users with a uid of 0 to login on this line. The flag ``dialin'' indicates that a tty entry describes a dialin |
