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Comments start with a ‘#’ and extend to the end of the line. Blank lines or lines with only a comment are ignored.

All other lines consist of three fields delimited by whitespace.

Login Device

The device you have logged in on (e.g., “/dev/ttyv0”).

File Permission

An octal permission number (0600), as used by chmod(2).

Other devices

The final field is a colon (‘:’) delimited list of devices (e.g., “/dev/console:/dev/fd0a”). All device names are absolute paths. A path that ends in “/*” refers to all directory entries except “.” and “..”.

The fbtab file is used by login(1) to chown(2) the specified files to the user who has performed a login. Additionally, chmod(2) is used to set the devices to the specified permission. When a user logs out, init(8) is responsible for performing the inverse operation, which results in the files once again belonging to root.

FILES

/etc/fbtab

 

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