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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000
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+.\" 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 2024-05-02 "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)