damn useful thing for using with serial consoles in clusters etc or secure
console locations. Using a custom gettytab entry for console with
an entry like 'al=root' means that there is *always* a root login ready on
the console. This should replace hacks like those which go with conserver
etc. (This is a loaded gun, watch out for those feet!)
Submitted by: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu>
calls. The cost is a little more up-front memory allocation, but the
effect seems minimal.
Problem noticed-by: bde
Added syslog at LOG_ERR when referencing an unknown gettytab entry
and for other cgetent() failues (circular reference et al).
To be merged into 2.2 after a few days testing.
'sane' standard (not raw) settings before abort/exiting; move
responsibility of setting raw mode for chat-handling out of
chat.c to avoid doing redundant tc{s,g}etattr()s; move DE
pause prior setting standard mode before issue/login prompt to
avoid echoing modem connect strings. Fixed up comment styles
in a couple of places.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
more manageable and convenient referencing by login.conf (login
class database) and (e.g.) login.access.
This is the first of a group of commits which implements the login
class capabilities database.
emitting the initial prompt.
This is useful in a number of circumstances :
- you have (a) stupid modem(s) that assert(s) DCD too soon.
- you have dialin users with stupid diallers and poorly
written chatscripts. (esp. some Winsock diallers)
BSD/OS also has this capability.
Submitted by: damian@cablenet.net (Damian Hamill)
COMPAT_43 cruft. This is supposedly the last core utility that has
been using it! (So now, one should be able to remove this option from
the config files. Be aware that the last officially released xterm
however still requires it.)
The getty has been running now for several weeks on my modem line, so
i feel safe about it.
Obtained from: mostly from the NetBSD vendor-branch
I get on this topic will go straight to /dev/null. This is absolutely the
last word on this topic you'll see from me. Too much time has already been
wasted.
/usr/libexec/getty doesn't properly interpret the '%d' escape. It tries
to use %P to get AM or PM, but instead all it gets is "P".
Submitted by: John Kohl
