From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 29 5:35:56 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DBF14C38; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 05:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA53787; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 05:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id FAA66134; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 05:35:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 05:35:10 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bruce Evans Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 ttys Message-ID: <20000129053510.A65961@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200001291218.EAA98731@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 12:14:59AM +1100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 12:14:59AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > No, 1.7 is just wrong. getty must only be run on physical devices, since > /dev/console is needed for syslogd. See Peter's mail. Like I said I'm open to solutions. But reverting the Alpha case does not fix the problem. And that is, if you install on an Alpha using a serial console (IMO a very common occurrence), you are not able to login as root until you remember to boot single user and edit /etc/ttys. While not a hard thing to do, I personally always forget and have to kill the power to reboot -- something I really don't like doing. Would it be preferable to enable a secure getty on `ttyd0'? Of course there are security conserns with doing that if you are using a keyboard/monitor console. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message