Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:52:12 +0000 From: Brad Waite <brad@wcubed.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Environment.. Message-ID: <3676E81C.FD9A2D71@wcubed.net> References: <36768CF3.8D07950E@wcubed.net>
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Well, apparently not many people care, but in case someone else is having the same problems I did today, I figured I'd post this. (Too bad you can't post directly to the archives.) Solution: From /etc, type "cap_mkdb login.conf" How I arrived there: Examined su.c, found the login capabilities functions, hacked together a quick tester program, and found that no changes to the /etc/login.conf were being passed to the getcap(3) functions. I tried "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" like the file sez (as I'd done 2 or 3 times before), but it no worky. Tried it from /etc and voila! -Brad Brad Waite wrote: > > I asked about this a few hours ago, but didn't get a response, so I'm > guessing I wasn't making myself clear enough. (Or I had my from: set > wrong.) > > Okay, I just installed 3.0 on my new server and everything's working > fine except the environment, specifically the PATH, for the root user. > > $ su - > Password: > # echo $PATH > /root/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin > > which is the path set for class 'default'. When I change the path in > the 'default' class, and re-su, root's path changes with it. > > However, the root entry in the login.conf looks like this: > > root:\ > :ignorenologin:\ > :tc=default:\ > :path=/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin > /usr/X11R6/bin: > > Why does it ignore the 'root' class in the login.conf? The man page for > login.conf says that it should only use the default class if a 'root' > class isn't specified. I even manually put root in the root class via > chsh, but the chsh man page says class is currently not used. > > Incidentally, it works just fine on my 2.2.8 machine. > > Help! > > -Brad > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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