Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:32:27 +0900 (JST) From: Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: symlinked $HOME/.login_conf ignored Message-ID: <20041130.153227.30105543.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <200411300123.23822.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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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
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