On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:25PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:51:01 +0100 > Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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