How to Install mingetty in Ubuntu 18.04



Install mingetty by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mingetty

Description:

Console-only getty

Mingetty is a small, efficient, console-only getty for Linux. . "getty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command. It is normally invoked by init(8)." . mingetty is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles. Unlike the getty in the util-linux or mgetty packages, mingetty is not suitable for serial lines, which is why it's smaller.

Version: 1.08-2build1

Section: universe/admin