securetty(5) File Formats Manual securetty(5) NAME securetty - list of terminals on which root is allowed to login DESCRIPTION The file /etc/securetty contains the names of terminals (one per line, without leading /dev/) which are considered secure for the transmission of certain authentication tokens. It is used by (some versions of) login(1) to restrict the terminals on which root is allowed to login. See login.defs(5) if you use the shadow suite. On PAM enabled systems, it is used for the same purpose by pam_se- curetty(8) to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are ac- cepted. FILES /etc/securetty SEE ALSO login(1), login.defs(5), pam_securetty(8) Linux man-pages 6.03 2022-10-30 securetty(5)
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