History log of /freebsd-current/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
Revision Date Author Comments
# 33d4ce54 21-Jun-2023 Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): Document priority's special value 'inherit'

Reviewed by: emaste, yuripv (older version)
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Kumacom SAS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40691


# aa96945e 21-Jun-2023 Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): Document priority's default and possible values

Priority is reset to 0 if not explicitly specified.

While here, be more explicit about what "Initial priority (nice) level"
means and document that it is possible to set real-time or idle class'
priorities with this capability.

Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Kumacom SAS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40689


# 92b2c435 29-May-2023 Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): Default values: Rename column, elaborate on absence of such

Column "Notes" in fact only contains default values for capabilities, so
make this clear by renaming it to "Default".

Add a small introductory text mentioning it, and what an absence of
default value means (inheritance).

PR: 271748
Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Kumacom SAS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40347


# ea9bd448 21-Jun-2023 Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): Document umask's special value 'inherit'

Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Kumacom SAS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40688


# 0d1fe948 25-May-2023 Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): umask has no default value

The umask is simply left unchanged if no explicit value is specified in
the login class capabilities database.

PR: 271747
Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Kumacom SAS
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40345


# fa9896e0 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# ab2f6ae8 28-Jun-2023 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf: document how to specify env var values with commas

As of f32db406504e quotes may be used to specify login class
capabilities that include commas. This is true in general but is
particularly relevant for setenv, a comma-separated list of environment
variables and values, so mention it there.

PR: 236204
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# e7f8f3b9 06-Oct-2021 Felix Johnson <felix.the.red@gmail.com>

login.conf.5: Mark passwordtime as implemented

login.conf.5 listed passwordtime in RESERVED CAPABILITIES, which is a
section for capabilities not implemented in the base system. However,
passwordtime has been implemented in the base for several years now.

PR: 246099
Reported by: avg
Reviewed by: 0mp
MFC after: 3 days


# bc89b58d 13-Jun-2020 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

libutil: Document function HISTORY within the manpages

Reviewed by: bcr (mentor)
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 7 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24795


# acf2957e 04-Feb-2020 Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>

login.conf(5): split MAIL env var out into a "mail" capability

This allows it to be easily suppressed in, e.g., the "daemon" class where it
will not be properly expanded.

This is a part of D21481.

Submitted by: Andrew Gierth <andrew_tao173.riddles.org.uk>


# 250d9fd8 12-Mar-2016 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Fix handling of umtxp resource limit in sh(1)/ulimit(1), limits(1), add
login.conf(5) support.

Reviewed by: jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5610


# efac066d 26-Oct-2013 Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

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


# 23f182d7 26-Oct-2013 Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>

All man pages refer to FreeBSD so there is no need to mention "In .Fx"


# b4f56035 19-Jun-2012 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>

Switch the default password hash from md5 to sha512.

MFC after: 1 week


# fb374358 07-Jun-2012 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>

Document that we also support sha256 and sha512.

MFC after: 1 week


# 7b1d17a1 12-May-2012 Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>

General mdoc(7) and typo fixes.

PR: 167804
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru (kogane!jp.freebsd.org)
MFC after: 3 days


# 66265da7 29-Mar-2012 Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc: terminate quoted strings.


# 288eac5a 29-Mar-2012 Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>

mandoc complains loudly when <TAB>s are misused in columnated lists. Fix
this syntax violation and while I'm here also convert <TAB> to Ta and adjust
quotation marks in order to prevent this problem in the future.


# 61a0bf2a 26-Mar-2012 Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>

This string should be quoted.

Noticed by: brueffer


# c2965cd1 26-Mar-2012 Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc: terminate quoted strings.

Reviewed by: brueffer


# 55f0bfba 09-Jul-2011 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

Add missing "swapuse" resource limit.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# fe0506d7 09-Mar-2010 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Create the altix project branch. The altix project will add support
for the SGI Altix 350 to FreeBSD/ia64. The hardware used for porting
is a two-module system, consisting of a base compute module and a
CPU expansion module. SGI's NUMAFlex architecture can be an excellent
platform to test CPU affinity and NUMA-aware features in FreeBSD.


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# bc093719 20-Aug-2008 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>

Integrate the new MPSAFE TTY layer to the FreeBSD operating system.

The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:

- Improved driver model:

The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.

If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.

- Improved hotplugging:

With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).

The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.

- Improved performance:

One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.

Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.

Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan


# d84c4292 25-Jul-2008 Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>

Add support for a new login capability, cpumask which allows login
sessions to be pinned to cpus by login class.


# f0d43ae9 10-Oct-2006 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Fix markup in previous revision.


# 5e058b33 09-Oct-2006 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

Add information on how to escape a literal colon in a value or name.

PR: 101262


# 6599d1e1 23-Aug-2006 Yaroslav Tykhiy <ytykhiy@gmail.com>

Recognize the existence of `auth' and `auth-type'
capabilities but tell they do nothing in the base system.

This is a late responce to
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ED759F1DC5ADD74592DD063B1EDEDAF803ACD2B5
.

Obtained from: OpenBSD (wording; with minor corrections)


# b208d15b 19-Apr-2006 Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>

Document how the backoff delay is calculated.

Submitted by: markus
MFC after: 3 days


# 9c512d4a 27-Feb-2005 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

Fix grammatical issue.

Submitted by: ceri


# 16814e4c 26-Feb-2005 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

Use ~/.login_conf when discussing a user's local file.

Suggested by: ru


# 59fa1b55 24-Feb-2005 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

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

Inspiried by: ru


# ef8bcbfb 23-Feb-2005 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>

Make it more obvious that cap_mkdb(1) is required to rebuild the database.

PR: 76981
Submitted by: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.ilk.org>


# b047cf98 05-Aug-2004 Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>

Spell FTP correctly - in this case, it is used as the name of the protocol,
not the program. Also, bump the document date.

Reminded by: our resident mdoc guard (ru)


# 1575f75d 06-Aug-2004 Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>

Add Giorgos's description of the ftp-chroot login.conf option.

Reported by: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Submitted by: keramida
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 1a0a9345 02-Jul-2004 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# eb8b21f7 05-May-2003 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>

Backout last commit. It is redundant in -CURRENT.

Pointed out by: David Schultz


# d8082d11 04-May-2003 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>

Note that the idletime setting is not enforced.

PR: docs/40952
MFC After: 3 days


# df788a52 04-May-2003 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>

Document the login-backoff and login-retries capabilities.

PR: docs/51397
MFC After: 3 days


# 9c042845 04-Mar-2003 David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>

Re-document unimplemented capabilities that were removed in the last
revision of this file, but note that they are not supported in the
base system.

Requested by: ache
Reviewed by: ache, mike (mentor)


# 9f7b7e45 02-Mar-2003 David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>

- Document the fact that we now use pam_passwdqc(8) to check
password quality, not login.conf(5).
- Move warnexpire and warnpasswd from the ``Accounting Limits''
section to ``Authentication'', and nix everything else in the
former section. The accounting knobs are not available in
the base system, and the subset of them available in ports
should be documented in the ports' manpages.

PR: 47960
Reviewed by: mike (mentor), doc


# 2db19028 22-Nov-2002 Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>

Document the `label' capability.

Approved by: re
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Labs
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project


# a4df5101 30-Oct-2002 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Use "deprecated" instead of "depreciated" where appropriate.


# cc6638bd 08-Aug-2002 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: spelling.


# b5c7be57 25-Jun-2002 Matthew Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>

Add documentation for vmemoryuse


# 9d58ead2 15-Nov-2001 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

o Document 'nocheckmail' login capability.


# 22524ffb 15-Nov-2001 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Although the 'bool' type is referenced in the list of capabilities, it
is not defined in the capability type list. Provide a definition for
'bool', if a slightly less than elegant one. Note that this definition
does not include the complete scope of available behavior defined
in cgetcap(3), and could probably be improved.


# e36b245c 25-Sep-2001 Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>

1) Back out ~/.login_conf disable
2) Pick only "me" class from ~/.login_conf as documented


# 35105a5f 16-Sep-2001 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

Disable per-user .login_conf support due to incorrect merging of local
and globaly settings. An alternative implementation will be developed.

Reported by: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl>


# 7ebcc426 15-Jul-2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# a307d598 10-Jul-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 70d51341 09-Jul-2001 Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh.


# 708b0425 17-May-2001 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Sort.


# 078ae588 17-May-2001 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Add the "prompt" and "passwd_prompt" fields to /etc/login.conf,
which makes lgoin more like getty in its ability to be configured.

Submitted by: tlambert (code only)


# 82e377fd 11-Mar-2001 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Updates for Blowfish password hashing.


# 32f6256a 16-Jan-2001 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 42635956 29-Dec-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 3b8ecdbb 20-Nov-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# b5c508fb 14-Nov-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Use Fx macro wherever possible.


# d29b3051 29-Sep-2000 Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>

Document passwd_format further.


# 0c697857 14-Jul-2000 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Make sbsize a size instead of a number. This allows the usual suffixes
to be applied to the value given. This does not break installed
/etc/login.conf files, since un-suffixed numbers are interpreted as
they were before.

PR: 19750
Submitted by: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>


# e8dca931 02-Jun-2000 Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>

document sbsize limit.


# eabfa0f4 30-Apr-2000 Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>

Add xref to cap_mkdb(1).

PR: docs/17544
Submitted by: Christ J. Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>


# c6ff3a1b 02-Mar-2000 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# dc23d060 11-Feb-2000 Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>

Document mixpasswordcase here as well as in passwd.1


# 36807a7b 19-Jan-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Do not set the default terminal type to "su", leave it empty.

PR: bin/5084
Reviewed by: asmodai, davidn, sef


# 3a049969 21-Sep-1999 Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc(7)'fy

Reviewed by: mpp


# 7f3dea24 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 7312edce 13-Aug-1999 Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>

Axe LOGIN_CAP_AUTH.

PR: 10115
Reported by: Gene Skonicki <gene@cif.rochester.edu>
Requested by: jdp


# 61f74535 30-Apr-1999 Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>

Change references from "passwordperiod" to "passwordtime", since
"passwordtime" is what passwd(1) has actually been using. I suspect
passwordperiod was the original intent. I can't figure-out which,
if either, BSDi uses. If anyone knows...


# 15b873cc 21-Feb-1998 Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>

Change tty-related capability names to match the implementation ("ttys.",
not "tty.").


# b916ff7f 14-Feb-1998 Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>

Correctly document h and m modifiers to the time format.

PR: 5739
Submitted by: Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com>


# b90b0ce7 06-Oct-1997 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Add passwd(5) to "SEE ALSO".

ISSUES:
An example and better explansion on how to specify a user's login
class in /etc/master passwd is needed.
(As I don't seem to be specifiying it right, I can't do it).


# ad1d4e56 31-Aug-1997 Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>

Remove login_progok()
Suggested by: guido


# fbbe016b 27-Aug-1997 Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>

Add full support for determining if a user
is restricted from running a given program.


# 889d7d15 26-Aug-1997 Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>

Add prog.deny as a list capability for
denying execution of certain programs.


# 664b1978 22-May-1997 Thomas Gellekum <tg@FreeBSD.org>

Typo police.


# 7e546392 22-Feb-1997 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# d649be87 04-Feb-1997 Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>

1MB is 1048576 bytes, not 1038476 bytes. (I can see that the original
committer wasn't using the MicroSlop Natural keyboard though! :)


# 75141cc9 20-Jan-1997 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>

Sort cross references.


# 1130b656 14-Jan-1997 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 32e43d39 09-Jan-1997 Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>

Minor mdoc style fixes.


# 717feb32 07-Jan-1997 Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>

Man page police.


# 273b52ce 07-Jan-1997 David Nugent <davidn@FreeBSD.org>

Consistency check: refs to ~/.login.conf should be ~/.login_conf.


# 561d61ca 04-Jan-1997 David Nugent <davidn@FreeBSD.org>

Add missing manpage for login.conf.