Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:55:30 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing unimplemented options from login.conf.5 Message-ID: <20030224225530.GA4107@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030224223718.GB9747@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030224223718.GB9747@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:37:18PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> This has been a thorn in my side for some time now. A large chunk
> of the options listed in the login.conf(5) manpage are poorly
> documented, and aren't even supported in the base system. My
> original intent was to add a sentence saying that some of them are
> supported in ports, but referring to ports from a system manpage
> is kludgy, and I could only find one option supported in ports
> anyway. So my new plan is to simply nix from login.conf(5) all of
> the options that don't work. What do people think of the
> following patch (which has some other stuff in it as well)?
If the options are really unlikely to get implemented, then I'd support
this move. Possibly part of the reason that they are there is to try
to convince someone(tm) to implement them.
From a (very) quick scan of the diff below, it looks good (although -STABLE
doesn't seem to have pam_passwdqc, so please bear that in mind if/when this
is MFC'd).
Ceri
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