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Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> writes:

> Yes, there are few words about one should run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf'
> after each change. But this is not what I propose to add to the manual page
> and /etc/login.conf is not a manual page by itself. At first I wasn't pay
> attention to these lines at all because I already read the manual and I
> instinctively wasn't expected to find any new information in
> /etc/login.conf. FreeBSD 4.8 Errata have a much better explanation than
> lines 3 and 5 on /etc/login.conf. Why not to add something like that to the
> login.conf(5) manual page?

That makes sense.  Feel free to submit such a change.

> By the way, do you know why hushlogin attribute doesn't work from the
> ~/.login_conf or how it can work from there? Thank you in advance.

I haven't used it in a while, but I thought that one worked.  After
you rebuild the database, of course.  I'm fairly sure it assumes your
login session is actually using login(1), though.