From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 13:40:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA03020 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA03011 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id VAA04561 ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:38:34 +0100 (BST) To: Nik Clayton cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: /dev/console In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:55:08 BST." <199604250955.KAA05230@plum.blueberry.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 21:38:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4559.830551113@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nik Clayton wrote in message ID <199604250955.KAA05230@plum.blueberry.co.uk>: > > Try this: > > > > gary@palmer:~> cat /etc/fbtab > > /dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console > Great. Even better then turning on the console in /etc/ttys. Can you (or > someone else) explain why this isn't turned on by default? If there aren't > any reasons not to do it I'll do a low priority send-pr about it. Security I would guess ... You may not want anyone who can log onto ttyv0 to grab all console output like that. There are probably implications for unusual setups, like the FreeBSD box running as an XDM server for x terms and so on. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.