'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 08/12/13 23:46 did gyre and gimble: >> > 3. And finally, if we should not add "console", could nspawn do >> > something clever with a temporary file + bind mount to temporarily allow >> > console logins in the /etc/securetty without actually modifying it. > I don't think it's worth trying to bind mount it like that, since there > a couple of ioctls that leak the original name (ptsname()), and there > are cases where you need to look up the device in /sys. In fact, in > systemd we have some code to track down to which tty /dev/tty, > /dev/tty0, and /dev/console currently point, and playing games with > renaming things certainly conrtadicts the general goal of such code...
I was really meaning bind mounting over /etc/securetty with new content not the /dev/tty* or /dev/console or anything more creative like that. Your (and others) answers are pretty clear tho' and confirm what I suspected (and hence made my first question!). Cheers all! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie 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/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel