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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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.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)