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26.Dd $Mdocdate: April 21 2022 $
27.Dt FBTAB 5
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm fbtab
31.Nd change device protection upon login
32.Sh DESCRIPTION
33The
34.Nm
35file contains lines which specify how the permissions and ownership of
36various system files should be changed based on the user's login device name.
37.Pp
38Comments start with a
39.Ql #
40and extend to the end of the line.
41Blank lines or lines with only a comment are ignored.
42.Pp
43All other lines consist of three fields delimited by whitespace.
44.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
45.It Login Device
46The device you have logged in on (e.g.,
47.Dq /dev/ttyv0 ) .
48.It File Permission
49An octal permission number (0600), as used by
50.Xr chmod 2 .
51.It Other devices
52The final field is a colon
53.Pq Ql \&:
54delimited list of device paths (e.g.,
55.Dq /dev/console:/dev/fd0a:/dev/wskbd* ) .
56Device paths may include shell-style globbing patterns (see
57.Xr glob 7 ) ,
58potentially matching multiple devices.
59.El
60.Pp
61The
62.Nm
63file is used by
64.Xr login 1
65to
66.Xr chown 2
67the specified files to the user who has performed a login.
68Additionally,
69.Xr chmod 2
70is used to set the devices to the specified permission.
71When a user logs out,
72.Xr init 8
73is responsible for performing the inverse operation, which results in
74the files once again belonging to root.
75.Sh FILES
76.Bl -tag -width /etc/fbtab -compact
77.It Pa /etc/fbtab
78.El
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr login 1 ,
81.Xr login_fbtab 3 ,
82.Xr glob 7 ,
83.Xr init 8
84.Sh AUTHORS
85.An Guido van Rooij
86