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From: chuqui@cae780.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: un-dedicating a line to a dialer, an - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 12:50:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 21 12:50:27 1983
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Another way is to write a program to enable and disable logins on a
particular line. Fred Blonder at the UofMaryland passed one my way when
this came up at a previous employer a year ago, and it works fine. What you
do is edit /etc/ttys to change the login entry for the tty, and then throw
a signal at init, which will adjust all of the gettys for you, adding or
dropping as needed. I ran a uucp link through a 3451 for 9 months that way
with NO hacking of any existing Unix code (which was handy, since it was a
binary license...)