Hi, Since switching to systemd, the mingetty we used to default to in inittab has been replaced by agetty (the default choice upstream).
The question is should we switch it back to mingetty? An argument against mingetty is that the current support in systemd will automatically work over serial consoles. With embedded systems and such more common these days, this might actually be a common situation (for very small values of "common" of course!). >From the man page of mingetty: mingetty is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles. Unlike agetty(8), mingetty is not suitable for serial lines. I recommend using mgetty(8) for this purpose. So if we switch to mingetty in [email protected] we'll be sacrificing serial console support. Have people got strong opinions on this? Can anyone remember why we ended up defaulting to mingetty in the first place? Col PS I'm aware of some "strange" behaviour on the current gettys. When on a getty you can use the cursor keys and move the cursor around. Keys such as backspace don't seem to work if you mistype your username or password (I'm pretty sure this used to work, but maybe I'm misremembering?). This is slightly improved with mingetty - in that the cursor keys don't move the text entry area, but they do print non-printable characters that still can't be deleted. I'll try and make this nicer, but it's probably not the highest priority problem on my list :p -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
