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| author | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-08-31 15:02:11 +0000 |
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| committer | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-08-31 15:02:11 +0000 |
| commit | 6417f6af98d67012b6757e4d27d185009dbe5874 (patch) | |
| tree | 95c016af6b61905ed864934ae59654e4f4160bfb /etc/login.conf | |
| parent | caed8dde2c0c285b4827869dc3e2ff2a58634171 (diff) | |
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Add a short description of how a literal colon ':' can be inlined in the
value of capability databases, since it's not really obvious how a colon
can be escaped, and a pointer to the getcap(3) manpage for more details.
Triggered by: a question by Ceri on -questions
Diffstat (limited to 'etc/login.conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/login.conf | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/login.conf b/etc/login.conf index 7b105ff..75cecc8 100644 --- a/etc/login.conf +++ b/etc/login.conf @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ # defaults # These settings are used by login(1) by default for classless users # Note that entries like "cputime" set both "cputime-cur" and "cputime-max" +# +# Note that since a colon ':' is used to separate capability entries, +# a \c escape sequence must be used to embed a literal colon in the +# value or name of a capability (see the ``CGETNUM AND CGETSTR SYNTAX +# AND SEMANTICS'' section of getcap(3) for more escape sequences). default:\ :passwd_format=md5:\ |
