Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:58:18 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: freebsd-questions mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Setting term capability in /etc/login.conf Message-ID: <20010111125818.A3300@goku.kasby>
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I've decided to change the localization settings. Previously I had a login
class for italian users in /etc/login.conf:
italian:Italian Users Accounts:\
:charset=ISO-8859-1:\
:lang=it_IT.ISO_8859-1:\
:tc=default:
In /etc/profile I had:
export TERM=cons25l1
and everything was fine.
Now I have removed the definition of the TERM variable from /etc/profile,
because not all users are in the italian login class. I have defined the term
capability in /etc/login.conf:
italian:Italian Users Accounts:\
:charset=ISO-8859-1:\
:lang=it_IT.ISO_8859-1:\
:term=cons25l1:\
:tc=default:
Then I have rebuilt the database with:
cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
When a user in the italian login class logs in, he has the TERM environment
variable set to cons25 instead of cons25l1. I grep'd into config files in /etc
and user's home directory to search for an explicit definition of the TERM
variable, but I couldn't find it.
As stated in the login.conf(5) man page:
ENVIRONMENT
Name Type Notes Description
[snip]
term string Default terminal type if not
able to determine from other
means.
so I understand that TERM is not set to cons25l1 because the terminal type is
determined from "other means". Now the question is: what are these "other
means"?
I don't want to put 'export TERM=cons25l1' in each italian user's
~/.bash_profile, because I would loose the simplicity of the administrator
level login classes method.
Francesco Casadei
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