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Subject: Re: symlinked $HOME/.login_conf ignored
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Hi,

>>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:23:23 +0100, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> said:

> I just discovered that .login_conf must not be symlinked in order to get 
> applied. Bug or feature?

Just a feature.

login_cap(3) says as follows,

  DESCRIPTION
     [...]
     ronment before the shell is invoked on login.  Note that access to the
     /etc/login.conf and .login_conf files will only be performed subject to
     the security checks documented in _secure_path(3) for the uids 0 and
     pwd->pw_uid respectively.

and you'll get the answer from _secure_path(3).

-- rushani