RE: .login_conf ignored [solved]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:20 AM, Christopher Illies wrote:

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:39:05PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:14:42 +0200, Christopher
Illies wrote:

The locale settings in my .login_conf are ignored:

[...]

Try compiling just your ~/login_conf, make sure a
~/login_conf.db file appears.

Ernest

Thanks, that has worked!

Before I always used cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf plus all the user's
$HOME/.login_conf, but just using it on my ~/.login_conf did the
trick. A ~/.login_conf.db file has appeared.

I feel a bit silly for not having come up with it myself.
I guess what
confused me was that on another user's account the
cap_mkdb compiling
wasn't neccessary, but I don't need to understand that now that it
works for me.

Thanks again.

Christopher

But you are still curious, aren't you?

Yes

AFAIK, there are two possible
explanations:

1) There _is_ a .login_conf.db file in the other user's homedir.

No


2) The other account pertains to a different login class than yours,
which already sets the desired locale and so masquerades the user's
settings being ignored. Dunno if a user can see his own
login class. If
you have permissions, can use vipw to find out (if
unfamiliar, take a
look to vipw(8) and passwd(5) manpages, notice the 'class' field).

Ernest

Not that I can see. I 'chris' is my login, and 'bill' in another
account that does not have this problem:

; sudo cat /etc/master.passwd | egrep 'chris|bill' | awk
-F: '{ print $1,":", $5,":"}'
chris : :
bill : :
; whoami
chris
; ls /home/bill/.login*
/home/bill/.login /home/bill/.login_conf
; cat /home/bill/.login_conf
# $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3 2001/06/10 17:08:53
# ache Exp $
#
# see login.conf(5)
#
me:\
:charset=iso-8859-1:\
:lang=se_SE.ISO8859-1:
; sudo sed -i.bak -e 's/se_SE/de_DE/' /home/bill/.login_conf
; su -l bill
Password:
$ whoami
bill
$ env | egrep -i 'lang|charset'
MM_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1

But to change settings on the 'chris' account I have to use cap_mkdb
/home/chris/.login_conf. Strange...

Christopher

And your test also discards some login script directly setting the variables
(assuming bill locale is usually se_SE). Wish some day we get enlightened.

Ernest


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