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FBTAB(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual FBTAB(5)
NAME fbtab - change device protection upon login
DESCRIPTION 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.
SEE ALSO login(1), getty(8)
AUTHORS Guido van Rooij
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE August 22, 1994 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE