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Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/agetty.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | term-utils/agetty.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8 index 2110cae5c..9cc611b03 100644 --- a/term-utils/agetty.8 +++ b/term-utils/agetty.8 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Adapts the tty settings to parity bits and to erase, kill, end-of-line and uppercase characters when it reads a login name. The program can handle 7-bit characters with even, odd, none or space parity, and 8-bit characters with no parity. The following special -characters are recognized: @ and Control-U (kill); #, DEL and +characters are recognized: Control-U (kill); DEL and back space (erase); carriage return and line feed (end of line). See also \fB\-\-erase-chars\fP and \fB\-\-kill-chars\fP options. .IP o @@ -220,13 +220,15 @@ or if not found by getaddrinfo() is shown. .TP \-\-erase\-chars \fIstring\fP This option specifies additional chars that should be interpreted as a -backspace (ignore previous char) when user specifies login name. The default is -\'#\', specify empty string to disable the default. +backspace (ignore previous char) when user specifies login name. The original +default has been \'#\', since util-linux 2.23 no additional erase chars are +enabled by default. .TP \-\-kill\-chars \fIstring\fP This option specifies additional chars that should be interpreted as a -kill (ignore all previous chars) when user specifies login name. -The default is \'@\', specify empty string to disable the default. +kill (ignore all previous chars) when user specifies login name. The original +default has been \'@\', since util-linux 2.23 no additional erase chars are +enabled by default. .TP \-\-version Output version information and exit. |