Bug 51345

Summary:	login.conf.db not mentioned in release notes
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	admin <admin>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Bruce A. Mah <bmah>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	admin
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description admin 2003-04-24 11:00:35 UTC

	
Before FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE there was only /etc/login.conf, but no
/etc/login.conf.db (at least i could not found this file on our
approx. 20 FreeBSD machines; however this constellation worked, i.e. the
plain text file was used instead of the hash db (i tested that)). 
When installing FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE login.conf.db apparently is created, but
this is mentioned neither in the "4.8-RELEASE Release Notes" nor in the
corresponding "Errata".

I noticed this problem, because our (so far sufficient) automatic editing of
/etc/login.conf of course didn't show up in /etc/login.conf.db and thus was
ignored.

Fix: 

Mention the newly created /etc/login.conf.db in the Errata.
How-To-Repeat: 	
Install FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE and look after /etc/login.conf[.db]

Comment 1 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2003-04-25 04:55:54 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->bmah

I'll look into this. 

Note to self:  See rev. 1.219.2.38 of src/etc/Makefile.

Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2003-04-25 22:55:52 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I wrote some text for the 4.8-RELEASE errata describing this change. 
It should make its way to the Web site within the next 24 hours. 

Thanks for pointing this out!