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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100."
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On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:

> I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the login_cap system.  Could 
> someone who is versed in it please take a look at this PR (text included)
> and let me know whether or not the suggested patch is correct.

Quite often, we receive requests to improve documentation that are born
out of a failure to read that documentation correctly. I think this PR
might be one of those cases. Have a look at the login_cap(3) manpage,
into which I suspect the submitter may not have dug deeply enough:

     The functions login_getpwclass(), login_getclass() and
     login_getuserclass() retrieve the applicable login class
     record for the user's passwd entry or class name by calling
     login_getclassbyname().  On failure, NULL is returned.  The
     difference between these functions is that login_getuserclass()
     includes the user's overriding .login_conf that exists in the
     user's home directory, login_getpwclass,() and login_getclass()
     restricts loookup only to the system login class database
     in /etc/login.conf. login_getpwclass() only differs from
     login_getclass() in that it allows the default class for user
     'root' as "root" if none has been specified in the password
     database.  Otherwise, if the passwd pointer is NULL, or the user
     record has no login class, then the system "default" entry is
     retrieved.

Regards,
Sheldon.


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