Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:56:23 GMT From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/91938: conflicting information in handbook/users-limiting.html and getcap(3) manual page Message-ID: <200601180656.k0I6uNDA053485@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200601180700.k0I70LqR072930@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 91938
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: conflicting information in handbook/users-limiting.html and getcap(3) manual page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 18 07:00:20 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeremy C. Reed
>Release: 6
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I noticed that RELENG_6's getcap.3 says
cgetent() will first look for files ending in ``.db'' (see cap_mkdb(1))
before accessing the ASCII version of the capability database.
But the webpage at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-limiting.html
says
Note: The system does not read the configuration in /etc/login.conf
directly, but reads the database file /etc/login.conf.db. To generate
/etc/login.conf.db from /etc/login.conf, execute the following command:
# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
This conflicts or is confusing.
>How-To-Repeat:
Look at manual page and at handbook and try to decide if
I need to use login.conf.db.
>Fix:
Please update manual page or handbook as appropriate.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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