On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration > >control definitions for the login package", and many of its > >parameters are inapplicable to display managers, or already > >implemented in parallel (e.g., how long do wait after a failed > >login before displaying the prompt/greeter again?). > > I believe that /etc/login.defs _is_ the right place to define the > default umask property. It feels wrong to me to make display managers selectively parse the configuration file of a different piece of software for configuration parameters that might be of interest to them. $ man 5 login.defs No mention of X Window System display managers there. Huh, well... BUGS Much of the functionality that used to be provided by the shadow password suite is now handled by PAM. Thus, /etc/login.defs is no longer used by programs such as login(1), passwd(1) and su(1). Please refer to the corresponding PAM configuration files instead. Maybe that's the direction we should head? -- G. Branden Robinson | If God had intended for man to go Debian GNU/Linux | about naked, we would have been branden@debian.org | born that way. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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