Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:34:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possible glitch in /etc/login.conf? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306113334.26185K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34FFD071.DBF8DAE9@san.rr.com>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Studded wrote:
> I was debugging some problems in an /etc/login.conf file and noticed an
> oddity that seems like a mistake, but before I submitted a PR I thought
> I'd ask. In the entries for root (both auth and capapbilities) there is
> a :\ at the end of the record where it seems like only a : is expected.
> Here are the relevant entries:
>
> auth-root-defaults:\
> :auth-login=krb_skey_or_passwd,passwd,kerberos,skey:\
> :auth-rlogin=krb_or_skey,kerberos,skey:\
^
Ths one is wrong; it would casue root's entry to be sucked under
auth-root-defaults.
>
> root:\
> lots of stuff
> :tc=auth-root-defaults:\
> Everything works as expected with these trailing \'s removed, although
> I'd not noticed a problem with them in place. If there is some reason
> that these are needed, perhaps a comment in the file would be in order
> to help people like me? :)
There should be continuations (the \ escape the return) for each line
except the last. That is the standard capability database format.
> On a related note, the :priority key word doesn't seem to take negative
> values. I didn't play with it much though.
Nobody said they were all implemented :)
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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