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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-04-26 15:06:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2024-05-02 01:24:19 +0200 |
| commit | dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd (patch) | |
| tree | 78b9b7425130e4a5858e4c01a524d802423879ed /man/man5/securetty.5 | |
| parent | 12aca537ce78a41bbcdaf485209691e10f8002d7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-dcde2f70372b49ec43efc5db864c9ff585d0a2dd.tar.gz | |
man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/
This is a scripted change:
$ mkdir man/;
$ mv man* man/;
$ ln -st . man/man*;
$ find share/mk/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l '^MANDIR *:=' \
| xargs sed -i '/^MANDIR *:=/s,$,/man,';
$ find share/mk/dist/ -type f \
| xargs grep -l man \
| xargs sed -i 's,man%,man/%,g';
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Cc: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man5/securetty.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man5/securetty.5 | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/securetty.5 b/man/man5/securetty.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ec397df9bd --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/securetty.5 @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:27 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH securetty 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +securetty \- list of terminals on which root is allowed to login +.SH DESCRIPTION +The file +.I /etc/securetty +contains the names of terminals +(one per line, without leading +.IR /dev/ ) +which are considered secure for the transmission of certain authentication +tokens. +.P +It is used by (some versions of) +.BR login (1) +to restrict the terminals +on which root is allowed to login. +See +.BR login.defs (5) +if you use the shadow suite. +.P +On PAM enabled systems, it is used for the same purpose by +.BR pam_securetty (8) +to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are accepted. +.SH FILES +.I /etc/securetty +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR login (1), +.BR login.defs (5), +.BR pam_securetty (8) |