Nonexistent devices in /etc/securetty?

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:38:50PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:
> I have noticed that on both my FC1 and my FC3 machines (which were fresh 
> installs, not upgrades) the /etc/securetty file lists:
> 
> vc/1
> vc/2
> vc/3
> vc/4
> vc/5
> vc/6
> vc/7
> vc/8
> vc/9
> vc/10
> vc/11
> 
> These devices do not exist.  Why are these entries included?

IIRC they were added for the benefit of people who built their own
kernels with devfs support enabled -- these should be the devfs device
names for the console devices.

Nalin