[BusyBox] how to get login to ask for password on a given port?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Meggy wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 
> >   # getty -L 9600 ttd/0 &    # "-L" for local line, so don't do DCD
> 
> Try just adding this to /etc/inittab.  That is where login's belong and
> will get automatically started at boot.

would it really make a critical difference if it was started via 
/etc/inittab or manually on the command line?  i ask since we're 
considering replacing init with minit, so we'll lose /etc/inittab anyway.

i'll give it a shot, though, just as a test.
  
> >   have i missed a critical option here?  how does getty pass on the info 
> > to /bin/login as to which port to continue to use?
>  
> try running "ls -l /proc/[login process number]/fd/"
> 
> You can then see what it's standard file descriptors are.

ok, thanks.

rday