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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: help sought - securing a terminal/line
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Date: 7 Aug 90 11:16:11 GMT
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In article <2080.26bda857@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray) writes:
>> One solution suggested was to put the name of the program in the
>> "/etc/ttys" file for that particular terminal line.  For instance...
>> 
>>   tty01   "/usr/local/lib"    vt100   on modem      # Start LIB software
>
>This solution won't work.  I think you need to have a front end "getty" to
>wait until a connection is made, and then exec the appropriate program.  I'm
>trying to modify "getty" now to do this, but if anyone else has a solution,
>please speak up!  Thanks.

Assuming we're talking BSD here (that certainly looks like a 4.3 /etc/ttys
file to me ...), can't you just use the `lo' gettytab entry for this:

      lo    str    /usr/bin/login   program to exec when name obtained

Cheers,

Rob
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