Bug 204918 - Serial console instruction out of date (/etc/ttys and onifconsole)
Summary: Serial console instruction out of date (/etc/ttys and onifconsole)
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
URL: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/han...
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Blocks: handbook-2022
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Reported: 2015-11-30 15:50 UTC by Mateusz Kwiatkowski
Modified: 2023-01-01 16:53 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Mateusz Kwiatkowski 2015-11-30 15:50:09 UTC
Handbook states that in order to enable login via serial console one must edit /etc/ttys:

"3. Edit /etc/ttys and change off to on and dialup to vt100 for the ttyu0 entry. Otherwise, a password will not be required to connect via the serial console, resulting in a potential security hole."

This is not necessary because of "onifconsole". Tested on 10.2 but this flag was introduced with 9.3.

Link to this page: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
Comment 1 Rebecca Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-05-30 19:55:19 UTC
This is still a problem.
Comment 2 Mateusz Kwiatkowski 2022-01-24 08:56:20 UTC
This is still not correct. I think the fix would be remove whole 3rd step.
Comment 3 Pau Amma 2022-04-07 01:06:02 UTC
Ceri Davies, are you still working on this? Do you plan to?

Also: while there, in 27.6.2 step 3, "an old computer with a modem program" s/modem/serial communication program/
Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-12-30 11:59:39 UTC
Triage, batch edit (just one): 

* for twenty-eight FreeBSD Handbook-related reports that had gained a 
  personal assignee, prior group/list assignee doc@ was 
  missing from the CC list.

Gentle hint: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla/> ▶ do, don't …
Comment 5 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-01-01 16:53:46 UTC
Throw back to pool