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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:24:03 -0700
From:      "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/1349: manpage for login(1) lacks pointers to login.access(5)
Message-ID:  <199606251824.LAA16236@relay.nuxi.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <199606251830.LAA26346@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         1349
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       manpage for login(1) lacks pointers to login.access(5)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 25 11:30:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David E. O'Brien
>Organization:
University of California, Davis
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-current (6-25-96)
>Environment:

	n/a

>Description:

	The man page for login(1) does not give details about login
	reading /etc/login.access.  Nor does it list it in the FILES
	or SEE-ALSO sections.  Also, nologin(8) is not listed in the
	SEE-ALSO section.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:
	
	Diff is supplied agaist fbsd-current source of 6-25-96


--- login.1.orig	Tue Jan 30 17:35:45 1996
+++ login.1	Tue Jun 25 11:19:30 1996
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@
 to prevent users from logging in when the system is about to go down.
 .Pp
 If the file
+.Pa /etc/login.access
+exists,
+.Nm login
+checks to see if the user and host pair are specifically allowed or denied
+access.
+.Pp
+If the file
 .Pa /etc/fbtab
 exists,
 .Nm login
@@ -132,6 +139,8 @@
 message-of-the-day
 .It Pa /etc/nologin
 disallows logins
+.It Pa /etc/login.access
+login access control table
 .It Pa /var/run/utmp
 current logins
 .It Pa /var/log/wtmp
@@ -147,8 +156,10 @@
 .Xr rlogin 1 ,
 .Xr getpass 3 ,
 .Xr fbtab 5 ,
+.Xr login.access 5 ,
 .Xr utmp 5 ,
 .Xr environ 7
+.Xr nologin 8 ,
 .Sh HISTORY
 A
 .Nm login


>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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