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diff --git a/man5/securetty.5 b/man5/securetty.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c710303f --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/securetty.5 @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:27 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH SECURETTY 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +securetty \- file which lists ttys from which root can log in +.SH DESCRIPTION +The file +.I /etc/securetty +is used by (some versions of) +.BR login (1). +The file contains the device names of tty lines +(one per line, without leading +.IR /dev/ ) +on which root is allowed to login. +See +.BR login.defs (5) +if you use the shadow suite. +.SH FILES +.I /etc/securetty +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR login (1), +.BR login.defs (5) |