Bug 539508

Summary:	stop using /etc/securetty by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hydrapolic, pam-bugs+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/2014-November/010484.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	121785

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-02-09 20:43:21 UTC

securetty isn't useful anymore on modern systems -- see referenced URL

unless anyone has any ideas as to when it'd make sense to have it enabled by default anymore, i'll disable it by default in shadow/pam/pambase

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-02-14 05:01:12 UTC

Commit message: Add USE=securetty and USE=nullok options
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-auth/pambase/metadata.xml?r1=1.11&r2=1.12
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-auth/pambase/pambase-20150213.ebuild?rev=1.1

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-02-14 05:40:56 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Do not install /etc/securetty and disable CONSOLE checking by default
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/shadow/shadow-4.2.1-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1