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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-25 00:32:41 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-25 00:32:41 +0000
commit6eab363209edede97e89dda210ab95fa13694df3 (patch)
treee2b3db4caa18f8d3197366f7eae012a0697ceebf
parentd82d10603bd2d44ccd20a63c184ba236c879395f (diff)
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Reword previous commit to be a bit more correct and provide more information.
Inspiried by: ru
-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/login.conf.518
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/login.conf.5 b/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
index c8ebd02..bbf0e69 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
+++ b/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
@@ -74,13 +74,21 @@ All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
the last name may contain upper case characters and blanks for
readability.
.Pp
-The
-.Pa /etc/login.conf
-file is not referenced directly by
-.Xr login 1
-so changes will not take effect until
+The default
+.Pa /etc/login.conf
+shipped with
+.Fx
+is an out of the box configuration.
+Whenever changes to this file, or
+the users local
+.Pa login.conf
+file are made, the modifications will not be picked up until
.Xr cap_mkdb 1
is used to compile the file into a database.
+This database file will have a
+.Pa .db
+extention and is accessed through
+.Xr cgetent 3 .
See
.Xr getcap 3
for a more in-depth description of the format of a capability database.
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