fbtab5

Change device protection upon login

Overview

The fbtab file contains a number of lines specifying a device together with a list of devices with associated protections. Comments start with a ‘#’ and extend to the end of the line.

Blank lines or lines with only a comment are ignored.

All other lines consist of three fields delimited by whitespace: a login device (/dev/ttyv0), an octal permission number (0600), and a colon (‘:’) delimited list of device patterns (/dev/console, /dev/dsp*). All device patterns are absolute paths.

If the tty argument (relative path) matches a login device name (absolute path), the permissions of the devices in the colon-delimited list are set as specified in the second field, and their ownership is changed to that of the UID and GID arguments.

Files

/etc/fbtab: The fbtab file resides in /etc.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 43 times.

2.0.5–2.1.7.1
2.2.2–2.2.6
2.2.7–2.2.8
2.2.9
3.0–3.2
3.3–3.4
3.5–3.5.1
4.0–4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5–4.11
5.0–6.3
6.4
7.0
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
8.0
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
9.0
9.1
9.2
9.3
10.0
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
11.0
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
12.0
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
13.0–13.2
13.3–16.0

Overview

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Releases

See also

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