HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

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getty(1M) getty(1M)
The user’s name is scanned to see if it contains any lowercase alphabetic characters; if not, and if the name
is non-empty, the system is told to map any future uppercase characters into the corresponding lowercase
characters.
getty also understands the "standard" ESS2 protocols for erasing, killing and aborting a line, and ter-
minating a line. If getty sees the ESS erase character,
_, or kill character, $, or abort character, &,or
the ESS line terminators,
/ or !, it arranges for this set of characters to be used for these functions.
Finally, login is called with the user’s name as an argument. Additional arguments can be typed after the
login name. These are passed to login, which places them in the environment (see login(1)).
Check Option
A check option is provided. When
getty is invoked with the
-c option and file, it scans file as if scanning
/etc/gettydefs
and prints the results on the standard output. If there are any unrecognized modes
or improperly constructed entries,
getty reports these. If the entries are correct,
getty prints out the
values of the various flags. See ioctl(2) for an interpretation of values. Note that some values are added to
the flags automatically.
DEPENDENCIES
HP 2334 MultiMux:
The modem control parameter MRTS must be present in the
/etc/gettydefs
file when using getty
in conjunction with an HP 2334 or HP 2335 MultiMux to ensure that the RTS modem control signal is
asserted correctly.
Example:
9600# B9600 HUPCL PARENB MRTS # B9600 SANE PARENB ISTRIP IXANY #login: #19200
MRTS is not intended for use with devices other than the HP2334 or HP 2335 MultiMux.
FILES
/etc/gettydefs
/etc/issue
SEE ALSO
ct(1), login(1), init(1M), ioctl(2), gettydefs(4), inittab(4), modem(7), termio(7).
BUGS
While getty does understand simple single character quoting conventions, it is not possible to quote the
special control characters that getty uses to determine when the end of the line has been reached, which
protocol is being used, and what the erase character is. Therefore it is not possible to log in by means of
getty and type a #, @, /, !, _, backspace, ˆU,
ˆD,or & as part of your login name or arguments. They
will always be interpreted as having their special meaning as described above.
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