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.\" 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 2022-10-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH securetty 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
securetty \- list of terminals on which root is allowed to login
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ contains the names of terminals
.IR /dev/ )
which are considered secure for the transmission of certain authentication
tokens.
-.PP
+.P
It is used by (some versions of)
.BR login (1)
to restrict the terminals
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ on which root is allowed to login.
See
.BR login.defs (5)
if you use the shadow suite.
-.PP
+.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.