It's beginning to make more sense to me now. Thanks!! On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:11:48PM -0600, Thea DeSilva wrote: > > Hmm.... so I decided to tack it on an existing tap just to keep changes > to > > a minimum. Still doesn't work. Here's a cap of my gettytab and my ttys > > Please cut and paste text rather than sending screenshots if at all > possible. > > Anyway, you've set: > > lo=/bin/sh > > what do you expect to happen? > > This won't give you an automatic root shell on the specified terminal, > (which > is probably not a great idea anyway). > > When you say it's being ignored, I'm guessing you're seeing something like: > > --- > OpenBSD/amd64 (hostname.domain) (ttyC0) > > login: foobar > login: foobar: No such file or directory > --- > > But try this from a regular shell: > > $ sh -p -- foobar > sh: foobar: No such file or directory > > So in fact it's not being ignored, and sh is indeed being invoked by getty. > > The program you specify with 'lo' is intended to accept and process certain > arguments, usually to start a login session, set up environment, etc, etc. > > It's not just any old program. > > To see what's happening, try using /bin/echo: > > lo=/bin/echo > > ... and you'll see the arguments that are passed. >
