docs/91938: conflicting information in handbook/users-limiting.html and getcap(3) manual page

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Wed Jan 18 07:00:22 UTC 2006


>Number:         91938
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       conflicting information in handbook/users-limiting.html and getcap(3) manual page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 18 07:00:20 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeremy C. Reed
>Release:        6
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
              I noticed that RELENG_6's getcap.3 says

 cgetent() will first look for files ending in ``.db'' (see cap_mkdb(1))
 before accessing the ASCII version of the capability database.

But the webpage at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-limiting.html
says

  Note: The system does not read the configuration in /etc/login.conf
  directly, but reads the database file /etc/login.conf.db. To generate
  /etc/login.conf.db from /etc/login.conf, execute the following command:
 
  # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

This conflicts or is confusing.

>How-To-Repeat:
              Look at manual page and at handbook and try to decide if
I need to use login.conf.db.
>Fix:
              Please update manual page or handbook as appropriate.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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