From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 19 16:23:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08952 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08928 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07992; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:48:27 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA06919; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:48:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980120104826.10669@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:48:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: John Polstra , toshok@netscape.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user limits, login.conf, etc. References: <199801192025.MAA24381@austin.polstra.com> <199801200003.KAA00508@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801200003.KAA00508@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:33:25AM +1030 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:33:25AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote: >> In article <34C16A7A.9E950A3@netscape.com>, >> Chris Toshok wrote: >> >>> Here's my login.conf entry: >> >> Not to insult your intelligence or anything, but did you run >> "cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf" after you edited it? It's easy to >> forget that step. > > Is this step *absolutely* necessary? My understanding is that it's not necessary, but of course if you do it once, you need to do it every time. > If so, it needs to be mentioned in the manpage. 8) Agreed. Greg