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Re: Switching ttys to /dev/constty by default (Was: Enabling xdm in sysinst breaks console login?)

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Subject: Re: Switching ttys to /dev/constty by default (Was: Enabling xdm in sysinst breaks console login?)
From: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:47:16 +0100

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 22:40, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> [...history of /dev/constty introduction 16 years ago...]

Final call - any objections to switching /dev/ttys entries from
/dev/console to /dev/constty?

It specifically fixes the use case of
- user enables xdm via sysinst, or adds 'xdm=YES' to rc.conf
- user can no longer login via Ctrl+Alt+F1 console

David

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