https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731594 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731594#c25 --- Comment #25 from Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net> 2014-03-11 18:21:29 CET --- (In reply to comment #24)
agetty isn't that large and it can log on both serial lines and virtual consoles, it also accepts and obeys the --noclear and it can handle the escape sequences of you /etc/issue
In fact the discussion was done several years ago and mingetty was kicked out.
So I note that mingetty isn't "officially supported" anymore. If I decide to use it (like I use the Sunbird selfstanding calendar, whose latest Linux64 nightly is dated 2010-01-11 AFAIK, and for which I haven't found a replacement that satisfies me), it will be under my own responsibility. If I have specific problems with mingetty (as opposed to systemd or login, which _are_ supported), part or all of the answer will always be "mingetty is obsolete; use agetty instead". The point of serial lines might be moot since AFAIK I don't have any (though I'm not sure); but I regard being able to listen to logins from them as a security liability unless they are really known in advance to be needed as login devices. I don't know how big agetty is when running; its binary executable is only slightly larger than that of mingetty and vastly smaller than that of mgetty so you might have a point there. My other two points, apparently, make no difference between agetty and mingetty. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.