help sought - securing a terminal/line

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <=D25VBE at xds13.ferranti.com>, peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter
da Silva) writes:
> In article <3846 at auspex.auspex.com>, guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy
Harris) writes:
> > For UNIX-like systems with "ttymon", such as System V Release 4, I think
> > there's some other magic you can do to arrange that "ttymon" run your
> > program when the port starts up.
> 
> You're saying V.4 doesn't use inittab?

Nope, he didn't say that.

 
> Um, this is not good. The flexibility of inittab has been very helpful. I
> don't want to go back to kludging a login or getty front-end again.

Fear not; the V.4 init still understands inittab.  All Guy was
referring to was the advent of ttymon, a STREAMS-based tty port
monitor that provides a more convenient way to deal with terminals
than the old inittab method.

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