FBTAB(5) | File Formats Manual | FBTAB(5) |
fbtab
— change
device protection upon login
The fbtab
file contains lines which
specify how the permissions and ownership of various system files should be
changed based on the user's login device name.
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.
:
’)
delimited list of device paths (e.g.,
“/dev/console:/dev/fd0a:/dev/wskbd*”). Device paths may
include shell-style globbing patterns (see
glob(7)), potentially matching multiple
devices.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.
Guido van Rooij
April 21, 2022 | OpenBSD-current |