FBTAB

NAME
     fbtab -- change device protection upon login

DESCRIPTION
     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.

     Login Device          The device you have logged in on, ie. /dev/ttyv0.

     File Permission       An octal permission number (0600), as used by
                           chmod(2).

     Other devices         The final field is a ":"-delimited list of devices,
                           ie.  /dev/console:/dev/fd0a.  All device names are
                           absolute paths.  A path that ends in "/*" refers to
                           all directory entries except "." and "..".

     The fbtab file is used by login(1) to chown(2) the specified files to the
     user who has performed a login.  As well, 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, this results in the
     files once again belonging to root.

FILES
     /etc/fbtab  The fbtab file resides in /etc.

SEE ALSO
     login(1), init(8)

AUTHOR
     Guido van Rooij

BSD                             August 22, 1994                            BSD