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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:13:39 -0600
From:      "Kelly D. Grills" <kdgrills@the-grills.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cap_mkdb & login.conf.db
Message-ID:  <20061114001339.GB844@the-grills.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20061113145403.0d2abde0@mail.ucla.edu>
References:  <6.2.0.14.2.20061113145403.0d2abde0@mail.ucla.edu>

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:01:17PM -0800, T. Fields wrote:
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> So sorry to bother. But I have been looking through the extensive=20
> documentation provided with freeBSD and can't find the answer, so I thoug=
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> I would ask for help.
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> I am trying to set the path variable upon boot-up. I have altered the=20
> /etc/login.conf  as well as the global /etc/profile but the path is being=
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> set via /etc/login.conf.db so my question.
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> When the system is installed and the installation scripts are run what is=
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> the command line for
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> cap_mkdb ?
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> I would like to alter /etc/login.conf.db but I don't know which files oth=
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> than /etc/login.conf to include in the invocation of the command and I=20
> don't want to muck the works.

See section 13.7 of the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-limiting.ht=
ml

Also the man pages for login.conf and cap_mkdb:
LOGIN.CONF(5), CAP_MKDB(1)

The short answer is: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

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Kelly D. Grills
kdgrills@the-grills.com



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