Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:32:27 -0800 (PST) From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hushlogin attribute Message-ID: <20041214213227.86471.qmail@web14825.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <441xdt9cyl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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--- Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote: > Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> writes: > > > Yes, there are few words about one should run 'cap_mkdb > > /etc/login.conf' after each change. But this is not what I propose to > > add to the manual page and /etc/login.conf is not a manual page by > > itself. At first I wasn't pay attention to these lines at all because I > > already read the manual and I instinctively wasn't expected to find any > > new information in /etc/login.conf. FreeBSD 4.8 Errata have a much > > better explanation than lines 3 and 5 on /etc/login.conf. Why not to > > add something like that to the login.conf(5) manual page? > > That makes sense. Feel free to submit such a change. Thanks for suggestion. I submited a docs/75068 PR about that. > > By the way, do you know why hushlogin attribute doesn't work from the > > ~/.login_conf or how it can work from there? Thank you in advance. > > I haven't used it in a while, but I thought that one worked. After > you rebuild the database, of course. I'm fairly sure it assumes your > login session is actually using login(1), though. Rebuilding the /etc/login.conf.db and building ~/.login_conf.db doesn't help. If you're interesting, take a look on a bin/75001 PR with my patch of login(1). BTW that patch also fixes the same problem with nocheckmail attribute in user's '.login_conf'. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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