Reword previous commit to be a bit more correct and provide more information.

Inspiried by:	ru
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trhodes 2005-02-25 00:32:41 +00:00
parent d82d10603b
commit 6eab363209

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@ -74,13 +74,21 @@ All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
the last name may contain upper case characters and blanks for
readability.
.Pp
The
.Pa /etc/login.conf
file is not referenced directly by
.Xr login 1
so changes will not take effect until
The default
.Pa /etc/login.conf
shipped with
.Fx
is an out of the box configuration.
Whenever changes to this file, or
the users local
.Pa login.conf
file are made, the modifications will not be picked up until
.Xr cap_mkdb 1
is used to compile the file into a database.
This database file will have a
.Pa .db
extention and is accessed through
.Xr cgetent 3 .
See
.Xr getcap 3
for a more in-depth description of the format of a capability database.