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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:13:00 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a
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In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said:
> Hi there
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am getting
> this message when server boots....
> 
> Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error???
> 
> _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

Do you maybe have a user account whose home directory is /dev/null ? It
looks like program (su, maybe?) is looking for ~/.login_conf using the
_secure_path() function.  Try changing that home directroy to
/var/empty , which is an empty directory with no write permission
provided for cases when you need one.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com