diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c0b7cb3b3b1..2077096f441 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4349,7 +4349,7 @@ version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "fluent",
- "nix",
+ "rustix",
  "uucore",
 ]
 
diff --git a/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
index fe5a97b07e7..6fe03e42525 100644
--- a/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/tty/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs"] }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
-nix = { workspace = true, features = ["term"] }
+rustix = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "termios"] }
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "tty"
diff --git a/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs b/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
index cb5ae8e1721..3dfef73225e 100644
--- a/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
+++ b/src/uu/tty/src/tty.rs
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
 
     let mut stdout = std::io::stdout();
 
-    let name = nix::unistd::ttyname(std::io::stdin());
+    let name = rustix::termios::ttyname(std::io::stdin(), Vec::with_capacity(8));
 
     let write_result = if let Ok(name) = name {
-        stdout.write_all_os(name.as_os_str())
+        use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+        let os_name = std::ffi::OsStr::from_bytes(name.as_bytes());
+        stdout.write_all_os(os_name)
     } else {
         set_exit_code(1);
         writeln!(stdout, "{}", translate!("tty-not-a-tty"))