TTYS(5) TTYS(5) NAME ttys - terminal initialization data DESCRIPTION The ttys file is read by the init program and specifies which terminal special files are to have a process created for them which will allow people to log in. It contains one line per special file. The first character of a line is either `0' or `1'; the former causes the line to be ignored, the latter causes it to be effective. The second character is used as an argu- ment to getty(8), which performs such tasks as baud-rate recognition, reading the login name, and calling login. For normal lines, the character is `0'; other characters can be used, for example, with hard-wired terminals where speed recognition is unnecessary or which have special charac- teristics. (Getty will have to be fixed in such cases.) The remainder of the line is the terminal's entry in the device directory, /dev. FILES /etc/ttys SEE ALSO init(8), getty(8), login(1)