cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 periodic.conf.5

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Mon Sep 4 08:15:47 UTC 2006


On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:25PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:51:01 +0100
> Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:40:53PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:34:14 +0100
> > > Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:31:20PM +0000, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > > > trhodes     2006-09-03 21:31:20 UTC
> > > > > 
> > > > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > > > 
> > > > >   Modified files:
> > > > >     share/man/man5       periodic.conf.5 
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Belated update for login.conf checks.
> > > > 
> > > > > | +.It Va daily_status_security_logincheck_enable
> > > > > | +.Pq Vt bool
> > > > > | +Set to
> > > > > | +.Dq Li YES
> > > > > | +to check
> > > > > | +.Pa /etc/login.conf
> > > > > | +ownership, ensuring user class information will
> > > > > | +not be ignored if modifications and a new database
> > > > > | +is built.
> > > > 
> > > > The new text doesn't seem to make any sense.
> > > 
> > > I was trying to keep it from being wordy, what does not
> > > make sense to you father?  ;)
> > 
> > Everything after the word ownership, I'm afraid :)
> 
> "ownership.
> See
> .Xr login.conf 5
> for more information."
> 
> ?

Cool.

> > Is it really common for this file to be owned by anyone other than root
> > though?
> 
> Telecommunte, configure a system exactly like another and use
> scp as a non root user after a non root copy.  There are times
> I'm doing so many things at once I do stupid things.  Surely
> someone else has done this as well.  ;)

Overwritten a root owned file as a non-root user?  Not me, guvnah :)
Anyway, that bit doesn't concern me; I just wanted to check that I
understood what it was supposed to be doing.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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