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authorMarco Pfatschbacher <mpf@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-22 22:16:17 +0000
committerMarco Pfatschbacher <mpf@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-22 22:16:17 +0000
commit2478be8dfa658e10cacf9c336f0d149282f9b394 (patch)
tree3d07004589bb2ae52236dd4f86d6d15e65782f59 /libexec
parentbace352630e1f688d55c17a14a470e6edfb77d71 (diff)
Mention that "secure" on the console entry means, that
no password will be needed for single-user. It's already noted in init(8), but having it here to cannot hurt. s/login/log in/ + corrections from jmc. OK jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
-rw-r--r--libexec/getty/ttys.511
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/getty/ttys.5 b/libexec/getty/ttys.5
index 3e37f058d2a..5c2cae26676 100644
--- a/libexec/getty/ttys.5
+++ b/libexec/getty/ttys.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ttys.5,v 1.10 2007/05/31 19:19:39 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ttys.5,v 1.11 2008/10/22 22:16:16 mpf Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)ttys.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2008 $
.Dt TTYS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ The opposite of on.
.It Ar secure
If
.Ar on
-is also specified, allows users with a UID of 0 to login on this line.
+is also specified, allows users with a UID of 0 to log in on this line.
+If set for the
+.Ar console
+entry, then
+.Xr init 8
+will start a single-user shell without asking for the superuser password.
.El
.Pp
Additionally, the following flags modify the default behavior of