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Subject: Serial console documentation correction
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:02:13 +0200
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Hi,

The page https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html =
contains the phrase:

>	=E2=80=A2 Edit /etc/ttys and change off to on and dialup to =
vt100 for the ttyu0 entry. Otherwise, a password will not be required to =
connect via the serial console, resulting in a potential security hole.

This is not correct anymore for the latest release, and even then it is =
not the best way to describe what should be done. Better would be to =
state what the line should be so that it is immediately clear what has =
to happen.

The latest Release now has the following line in /etc/ttys:

> ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   onifconsole secure

This does not even need any changing.

Regards,
Jeroen.=