Re: Login not reading /etc/login.conf.db

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 25, 12:52pm, darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost ("D'Arcy J.M. Cain") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Login not reading /etc/login.conf.db

| Not sure if that would work for my situation.  In any case, that's not
| the real question.  The problem is that the login.conf.db file is
| ignored unless /etc/login.conf exists.  It can even be empty.  Why
| can't it simply pick up the db file?

Because it checked before then, and the db pathname if formed later.

| Where is this actually checked by the way?  I couldn't find it.

http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/lib/libutil/login_cap.c#80

christos