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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libutil/login.conf.5 | 18 |
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. |
