getty

getty - Unix program running on a host computer that manages physical or virtual terminals

Beschreibung

Infobox

• Ken Thompson
• C
• UNIX-like systems

getty, short for "get tty"

• Unix program running on a host computer that manages physical or virtual terminals (TTYs)
• When it detects a connection, it prompts for a username and runs the 'login' program to authenticate the user

Originally, on traditional Unix systems, getty handled connections to serial terminals (often Teletype machines) connected to a host computer

• The tty part of the name stands for Teletype, but has come to mean any type of text terminal. One getty process serves one terminal
• In some systems, for example, Solaris, getty was replaced by ttymon

Personal computers running Unix-like operating systems, even if they do not provide any remote login services, may still use getty as a means of logging in on a local virtual console

Instead of the login program, getty may also be set up by the system administrator to run any other program, for example pppd (point-to-point protocol daemon) to provide a dial-up Internet connection

Anhang

Siehe auch

• Getty

• BusyBox provides a getty
• GNU Core Utilities implements stty
• util-linux provides agetty

Links

Weblinks

1. man|8|getty|FreeBSD
2. Text Terminal HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project