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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
| 2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
| fea681da | 3 | .\" |
| e4a74ca8 | 4 | .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| c13182ef | 5 | .\" |
| fea681da | 6 | .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:27 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| 45186a5d | 7 | .TH SECURETTY 5 2020-06-09 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
| fea681da | 8 | .SH NAME |
| 4f8b740d | 9 | securetty \- list of terminals on which root is allowed to login |
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10 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 11 | The file | |
| 12 | .I /etc/securetty | |
| 520c3a8b | 13 | contains the names of terminals |
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14 | (one per line, without leading |
| 15 | .IR /dev/ ) | |
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16 | which are considered secure for the transmission of certain authentication |
| 17 | tokens. | |
| 11ac5b51 | 18 | .PP |
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19 | It is used by (some versions of) |
| 20 | .BR login (1) | |
| 21 | to restrict the terminals | |
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22 | on which root is allowed to login. |
| 23 | See | |
| 24 | .BR login.defs (5) | |
| 25 | if you use the shadow suite. | |
| 11ac5b51 | 26 | .PP |
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27 | On PAM enabled systems, it is used for the same purpose by |
| 28 | .BR pam_securetty (8) | |
| 29 | to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are accepted. | |
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30 | .SH FILES |
| 31 | .I /etc/securetty | |
| 47297adb | 32 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| fea681da | 33 | .BR login (1), |
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34 | .BR login.defs (5), |
| 35 | .BR pam_securetty (8) |