A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\ :lang=locale_name:\ :tc=default: If I look in the file on a newly installed 8.0-RELEASE it shows:

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
is used when there are several alternative names for the same object -- this is not used much in /etc/login.conf, unlike /etc/termcap. By convention, the last name in a list of alternates like this is a comment rather than a tag for actual use. See getcap(3) for details. The first entry

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread b. f.
... Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? /Leslie The answer is clearly set forth in login.conf(5): Records in a class capabilities database consist of a number of colon- separated fields. The first entry for each record gives one or more names that a record is to be known

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Probably the latter. The '|' symbol is used when there are several alternative names for the same object -- this is not used much in /etc/login.conf, unlike /etc/termcap. By convention, the last name in a list of alternates like

/etc/login.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how can i put in setenv= definition a : character? for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: /etc/login.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/6/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: how can i put in setenv= definition a : character? for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf It's documented in login.conf manual. -- Paul ___

Re: /etc/login.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf It's documented in login.conf manual. indeed i missed that. Note that since a colon (`:') is used to separate capability entries, a `\c' escape sequence must be used to embed a literal colon in the value

MD5 vs. SHA1: hashed passwords in /etc/master.passwd - can we configure SHA1 as default in /etc/login.conf?

2009-01-03 Thread O. Hartmann
MD5 seems to be compromised by potential collision attacks. So I tried to figure out how I can use another hash for security purposes when hashing passwords for local users on a FreeBSD 7/8 box, like root or local box administration. Looking at man login.conf reveals only three possible hash

Re: _security_path: cannot stat /etc/login.conf:

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Vanik abazyan wrote: Help pls FreeBSD 5.3 sshd _security_path: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: 1st: Please include a descriptive subject - even if it's the same line as the body. 2nd: Do you have that file? What are the permissions? What action are you trying to do? Are there other

RE: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

2005-05-19 Thread James Tucker
Hi, Thanks, I have subscribed to the -questions mailling list. James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: 18 May 2005 20:16 To: James Tucker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

RE: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

2005-05-19 Thread James Tucker
it didn't seem, from what I have read, that is possible to do much else with the quotas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: 19 May 2005 14:16 To: James Tucker Subject: Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf James

Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

2005-05-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
James Tucker wrote: Yes, your reply does answer my question, quota'ing does seem to be a solution but I don't want to restrict from users for possessing multiples of 10MB files. I have already implemented quota's to prevent them from taking up more than their designated home dir space,

Re: Limiting Filesizes with /etc/login.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
This has nothing to do with filesystems, so I redirected the message to -questions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Tucker) writes: I have been trying to set max file size limits for class of users on my system. I have tried to setup a specific class for this purpose and while it cap_mkdb's with no

Changes to /etc/login.conf ignored

2003-11-21 Thread a
Hi, I'm seeing somewhat strange behavior in my 4.9 System: Seems like any changes I make to /etc/login.conf get silently ignored. Here's what I've done: I wanted to set an environment varialbe LC_CTYPE in /etc/login.conf like this :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES

Re: Changes to /etc/login.conf ignored

2003-11-21 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:07:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like any changes I make to /etc/login.conf get silently ignored. As I understand it, login.conf is used to set capabilities on a per user class basis to restrict the environment of classes of users - ie restricting the ttys

/etc/login.conf password formatting

2003-07-15 Thread Kris Yates
the following (as shown below) in /etc/login.conf, will the system still decrypt the old DES and MD5 entries, ie. nothing will break in this regard? :passwd_format=blf:\ # change the password encryption to Blowfish instead of the default md5 Thanks, Kris

Re: /etc/login.conf password formatting

2003-07-15 Thread Ceri Davies
, a suggestion to switch to blowfish. I am down with that! If I change the following (as shown below) in /etc/login.conf, will the system still decrypt the old DES and MD5 entries, ie. nothing will break in this regard? :passwd_format=blf:\ Correct, but don't forget to rebuild the capability

Re: something@ in /etc/login.conf

2003-04-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zheyu Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this weekend when i was editing /etc/login.conf i noticed a @ behind a few of the sample entrys, e.g.: [...] reading the corresponding man page i could not find out what it means or how it is used. it seems to substitute a whole lot of limit types

someting@ in /etc/login.conf

2003-03-31 Thread freebsd_deamon
dear list this weekend when i edited /etc/login.conf i noticed a few sample entries like: :requirehome@:\ (line 102) :ignoretime@:\ (line 131) :accounted@:\ (line 158) ... reading the corresponding manpage i could not find out what it mean or how it is used. it seems to substitute a lot

something@ in /etc/login.conf

2003-03-31 Thread Zheyu Shen
hello list, this weekend when i was editing /etc/login.conf i noticed a @ behind a few of the sample entrys, e.g.: :requirehome@:\ (line 102) :ignoretime@:\(line 131) :accounted@:\ (line 158) :passwordtime@:\ (line 248