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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] agetty vs. mingetty</H1>
+ <B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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+ <I>Thu Mar 8 15:17:33 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>Hi,
+
+Since switching to systemd, the mingetty we used to default to in
+inittab has been replaced by agetty (the default choice upstream).
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+The question is should we switch it back to mingetty?
+
+An argument against mingetty is that the current support in systemd will
+automatically work over serial consoles. With embedded systems and such
+more common these days, this might actually be a common situation (for
+very small values of &quot;common&quot; of course!).
+
+&gt;<i>From the man page of mingetty:
+</I>
+mingetty is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles. Unlike
+agetty(8), mingetty is not suitable for serial lines. I recommend
+using mgetty(8) for this purpose.
+
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+So if we switch to mingetty in <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">getty at .service</A> we'll be sacrificing
+serial console support.
+
+Have people got strong opinions on this? Can anyone remember why we
+ended up defaulting to mingetty in the first place?
+
+Col
+
+PS I'm aware of some &quot;strange&quot; behaviour on the current gettys. When on
+a getty you can use the cursor keys and move the cursor around. Keys
+such as backspace don't seem to work if you mistype your username or
+password (I'm pretty sure this used to work, but maybe I'm
+misremembering?). This is slightly improved with mingetty - in that the
+cursor keys don't move the text entry area, but they do print
+non-printable characters that still can't be deleted. I'll try and make
+this nicer, but it's probably not the highest priority problem on my list :p
+
+
+--
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A>
+
+Day Job:
+ Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>
+Open Source:
+ Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>
+ PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>
+ Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>
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