FBTAB(5)

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version 15.1 · 2 versions
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🎀 NAME 🎀

fbtab(5) — yes bestie, this is the File Formats Manual page for fbtab, and it’s literally all about change device protection upon login. 💅✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the fbtab file contains a number of lines specifying a device together with a list of devices with associated protections. 🫶

Comments start with a # and extend to the end of the line. no cap.

Blank lines or lines with only a comment are ignored. periodt.

All other lines consist of three fields delimited by whitespace:

  1. a login device (/dev/ttyv0),
  2. an octal permission number (0600),
  3. a colon (:) delimited list of device patterns (/dev/console, /dev/dsp*).

All device patterns are absolute paths. 🌈

If the tty argument (relative path) matches a login device name (absolute path), the permissions of the devices in the colon-delimited list are set as specified in the second field, and their ownership is changed to that of the UID and GID arguments. 👑

📁 FILES 📁

  • /etc/fbtab — the fbtab file resides in /etc. 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Guido van Rooij — author, icon, legend. ✨

xoxo, this page came from Debian and it’s dated August 22, 1994 — vintage but still slaying 🎀💜

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