Using fgetty instead of getty on Debian Etch
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Getty is known to be memory-hungry. Let’s replace it with something lighter, which works in most cases: fgetty On Debian Sarge and up, it is already packaged
What is fgetty?
fgetty is a small, efficient, console-only getty for Linux. It is derived from mingetty but hacked until it would link against diet libc to produce the smallest memory footprint possible for a simple yet complete getty.
fgetty includes a login program that supports the checkpassword authentication interface, and also a checkpassword program that uses the standard C library interface to passwd and shadow.