ttyv for local only?

[Jason DiCioccio]

Perhaps someone is using the snoop device?  (man snp).

I do this occasionally.. but you can watch vtys using 'watch' and the snp 
devices.

Regards,
-JD-

--On Saturday, June 26, 2004 1:18 PM -0700 Dave <mudman at metafocus.net> 
wrote:

>
> I get this in my security postings.
>
> Jun [undisclosed time] [undiscl.] login: 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyv2
> Jun [undisclosed time] [undiscl.] login: 2 LOGIN FAILURES ON ttyv2, qmaild
>
> As it turns out, I'm not running qmail :)  And if I did, it would
> definitely have a nologin shell.  But that's beside the point-
>
> I have had a perception that ttyv was for local/console logins, and that
> just "tty" was for remote logins.
>
> Is my understanding wrong here?
>
>
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