Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!polya!shap
From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Selectively disable login at specified line?
Keywords: login getty tty ultrix csh
Message-ID: <4216@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Oct 88 23:24:03 GMT
References: <1227@tuhold> <659@mtxinu.UUCP>
Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <659@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>>We want to restrict login-access at a specified terminal line
>>to a group of designated users, with the other ttys still
>>accessible to all users.
>
>The /etc/ttys file specifies the program to be run to capture the
>login name: typically /etc/getty.  You can use any program of your
>own design instead, however.  The functions of getty are, essentially,

Unfortunately, Ed is not quite right here, because of the following:

	Getty:    login:
	me:       shap
	...getty execs login...
	login:    passwd:
	me:       BOGUS (intentionally mistyped)
	*login*:  login:

A better place to enforce this sort of thing is to put in /etc/profile
and /etc/.login a line to check the tty line against the users group,
and log them out if the check fails.

This doesn't involve writing any special code.