Timeline for What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
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| S Jun 2, 2022 at 7:07 | history | suggested | Artfaith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2019 at 5:39 | comment | added | DiaJos | @Omnifarious thanks for this very interesting answer and having taken the time to elaborate :). | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 3:55 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @Webwoman - This was getting long and complicated enough that I just wrote it up in an answer: unix.stackexchange.com/a/529934/8068 | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 3:23 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @Webwoman - The defining feature of a console is that it has a direct connection to the hardware that's running the operating system. This idea is somewhat blurred with modern 'virtual machines', but that's the basic idea. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 3:21 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @Webwoman - Nope, console. A TTY is frequently not directly connected to a computer. And a console frequently isn't a TTY in the traditional sense. When I went to the U of MN in the late 80s, there was a campus-wide specialized network that I don't was running the Internet Protocol (aka IP) for connecting random TTYs to random computers. IBM mainframes have a similar thing going on and it was one the big reasons IBM created SNA. And a normal PC, even when it's only showing text, is very unlike a TTY in many ways, so a PC console isn't really a TTY exactly. | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 1:41 | comment | added | DiaJos | @Omnifarious thanks for your answer "Consoles often have a special place privilege-wise as someone who has access to them necessarily has physical access to the computer they communicate with" you meant TTY often have a special place privilege-wise ? | |
| Jul 12, 2019 at 21:35 | comment | added | Omnifarious |
@Webwoman - I have my system configured to only allow access to the root account through sudo or through a console login. Consoles often have a special place privilege-wise as someone who has access to them necessarily has physical access to the computer they communicate with. They are also the access method of last resort. If the OS is in a partially broken state (like the ethernet driver is broken) you can still access the console. It's the one human interface device that should ALWAYS be available, no matter what state the system is in.
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| Sep 9, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | DiaJos | thanks but basically if the terminal exist, why exist still tty also in ubuntu system for personal computers, accessible with alt + f-1/6 please, I can't figure out their utility above the fact they can be accessed without graphics system usage if I have well understood | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 18:01 | history | edited | Palash Kanti Kundu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2017 at 16:47 | history | answered | Palash Kanti Kundu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |