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Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > The hushlogin attribute doesn't work when it is added to "me" record  of
> > ~/.login_conf or to "default" record of /etc/login.conf. However, having
> > ~/.hushlogin file does its job well. Is it a bug or am I missing
> > something?
> > 
> > > uname -a
> > FreeBSD saturn 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #1: Fri Dec  3
> > 13:57:01 IST 2004     root@saturn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
> 
> If I run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' after the /etc/login.conf was changed
> the hushlogin attribute works. But I can't find any way to make hushlogin
> attribute work from the ~/.login_conf. Running 'cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf'
> doesn't help. Is it possibly to make the hushlogin attribute work from
> ~/.login_conf file?
> 
> P.S. IMHO the login.conf(5) manual page should say something about the
> /etc/login.conf.db file and its preferable usage by login(1).

The first eight lines of login.conf cover this quite well.