mingetty
is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles.
Unlike
agetty(8),
mingetty
is not suitable for serial lines.
I recommend using
mgetty(8)
for this purpose.
OPTIONS
--noclear
Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen
is normally cleared).
--nonewline
Do not print a newline before writing out /etc/issue.
--noissue
Do not output /etc/issue.
--nohangup
Do not call vhangup() to disable writing to this tty by
other applications.
--nohostname
Do not print the hostname before the login prompt.
--long-hostname
By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot.
With this option enabled, the full text from gethostname() is shown.
--loginprog /bin/login
Change the login app.
--nice 10
Change the priority by calling nice().
--delay 5
Sleep this many seconds after startup of mingetty.
--chdir /home
Change into this directory before calling the login prog.
--chroot /chroot
Call chroot() with this directory name.
--autologin username
Log the specified user automatically in without asking for
a login name and password. Check the -f option from
/bin/login
for this.
ISSUE ESCAPES
mingetty
recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the
/etc/issue
file:
