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From: Tony Maher <tonym@biolateral.com.au>
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Subject: literal colon in /etc/login.conf
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Hello,

is it possible to have a literal colon in /etc/login.conf?
I wish to set a proxy env var HTTP_PROXY=cache.some.domain:8080
(I am running 4.5)
I cant see anything in man page and its getting to late to read the source
;-)

thanks
tonym

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