.login_conf ignored [solved]

[Ernest Sales]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:00 PM, Christopher Illies wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:36:46PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:18 PM, Christopher Illies wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:27:10PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher Illies wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored:
> > > > >
> > > > > ; cat .login_conf
> > > > > # $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3
> > > 2001/06/10 17:08:53
> > > > > # ache Exp $
> > > > > #
> > > > > # see login.conf(5)
> > > > > #
> > > > > me:\
> > > > >         :charset=UTF-8:\
> > > > >         :lang=en_US.UTF-8:
> > > > >
> > > > > ; env | egrep -i 'lang|charset'
> > > > > LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
> > > > > MM_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
> > > > > ; ls -l .login_conf
> > > > > -rw-r--r--  1 chris  chris  146 May 15 08:26 .login_conf
> > > > > ; uname -r
> > > > > 6.2-STABLE
> [...]
> > > > Never had to deal with ~/.login_conf files, but what
> > > cap_mkdb manpage seems
> > > > to say
> > > > is that you have to concatenate all sources in one run, i.e.
> > > >
> > > > cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf /home/user1/.login.conf
> > > /home/user2/.login.conf ...
> > > >
> > > > HTH
> > > >
> > > > Ernest
> > >
> > > Thanks, unfortunately no success.
> > >
> > > When I concatenate all ~/login_conf files with
> /etc/login.conf I get
> > > the following warning message:
> > > cap_mkdb: ignored duplicate: me
> >
> > So I was mistaken. Try compiling just your ~/login_conf, make sure a
> > ~/login_conf.db file appears.
> >
> > Ernest
>
> Thanks, that has worked!
>
> Before I always used cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf plus all the user's
> $HOME/.login_conf, but just using it on my ~/.login_conf did the
> trick. A ~/.login_conf.db file has appeared.
>
> I feel a bit silly for not having come up with it myself. I guess what
> confused me was that on another user's account the cap_mkdb compiling
> wasn't neccessary, but I don't need to understand that now that it
> works for me.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Christopher

But you are still curious, aren't you? AFAIK, there are two possible
explanations:

1) There _is_ a .login_conf.db file in the other user's homedir.

2) The other account pertains to a different login class than yours,
which already sets the desired locale and so masquerades the user's
settings being ignored. Dunno if a user can see his own login class. If
you have permissions, can use vipw to find out (if unfamiliar, take a
look to vipw(8) and passwd(5) manpages, notice the 'class' field).

Ernest