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Mention in login.conf.5 which fields may be infinite and how to specifify infinity.

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The number of ways to indicate this confuses people.

PR:		docs/100196
Reported by:	"Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de>
Reported by:	Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie.landeg.jones@gmail.com>
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Eitan Adler 2013-10-27 04:59:18 +00:00
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@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ tag being delimited from the value by '=' instead of '#').
Whichever method is used, then all records in the database must use the
same method to allow values to be correctly overridden in interpolated
records.
A numeric value may be infinite.
.It size
A number which expresses a size.
The default interpretation of a value is the number of bytes, but a
@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ represents terabytes.
.El
A size value is a numeric quantity and case of the suffix is not significant.
Concatenated values are added together.
A size value may be infinite.
.It time
A period of time, by default in seconds.
A prefix may specify a different unit:
@ -168,8 +170,16 @@ the number of seconds.
Concatenated values are added together.
For example, 2 hours and 40 minutes may be written either as
9600s, 160m or 2h40m.
A time value may be infinite.
.El
.Pp
.Dq infinity ,
.Dq inf ,
.Dq unlimited ,
.Dq unlimit,
and -1
are considered infinite values.
.Pp
The usual convention to interpolate capability entries using the special
.Em tc=value
notation may be used.