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BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" BSDI login.conf.5,v 2.19 1998/02/19 23:39:39 prb Exp .\" .Dd July 11, 2015 .Dt LOGIN.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm login.conf .Nd login class capability data base .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm login.conf .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm login.conf file describes the various attributes of login classes. A login class determines what styles of authentication are available as well as session resource limits and environment setup. While designed primarily for the .Xr login 1 program, it is also used by other programs, e.g., .Xr rexecd 8 , which need to set up a user environment. .Pp The class to be used is normally determined by the .Li class field in the password file (see .Xr passwd 5 ) . The class is used to look up a corresponding entry in the .Pa login.conf file. A special class called .Dq default will be used (if it exists) if the field in the password file is empty. .Sh CAPABILITIES Refer to .Xr capfile 5 for a description of the file layout. An example entry is: .Bd -literal -offset indent classname|Description entry:\\ :capability=value:\\ :booleancapability:\\ \&.\&.\&. :lastcapability=value: .Ed .Pp All entries in the .Nm login.conf file are either boolean or use a `=' to separate the capability from the value. The types are described after the capability table. .Bl -column minpasswordlen program default .It Sy Name Type Default Description .\" .sp .It Sy copyright Ta file Ta "" Ta File containing additional copyright information. (If the file exists, .Xr login 1 displays it before the welcome message.) .\" .sp .It Sy coredumpsize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum coredump size. .\" .sp .It Sy cputime Ta time Ta "" Ta CPU usage limit. .\" .sp .It Sy datasize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum data size. .\" .sp .It Sy filesize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum file size. .\" .sp .It Sy host.allow Ta string Ta "" Ta A comma-separated list of host name or IP address patterns from which a class is allowed access. Access is instead denied from any hosts preceded by .Sq Li \&! . Patterns can contain the .Xr sh 1 Ns -style .Sq Li * and .Sq Li \&? wildcards. The .Sy host.deny entry is checked before .Sy host.allow . (Currently used only by .Xr sshd 8 . ) .\" .sp .It Sy host.deny Ta string Ta "" Ta A comma-separated list of host name or IP address patterns from which a class is denied access. Patterns as per .Sy host.allow , although a matched pattern that has been negated with .Sq Li \&! is ignored. (Currently used only by .Xr sshd 8 . ) .\" .sp .It Sy hushlogin Ta bool Ta Li false Ta Same as having a .Pa $HOME/.hushlogin file. See .Xr login 1 . .\" .sp .It Sy ignorenologin Ta bool Ta Li false Ta Not affected by .Pa nologin files. .\" .sp .It Sy login-retries Ta number Ta 10 Ta Maximum number of login attempts allowed. .\" .sp .It Sy login-backoff Ta number Ta 3 Ta Number of login attempts after which to start random back-off. .\" .sp .It Sy maxproc Ta number Ta "" Ta Maximum number of processes. .\" .sp .It Sy maxthread Ta number Ta "" Ta Maximum number of threads. The first thread of each process is not counted against this. .\" .sp .It Sy memorylocked Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum locked in core memory size. .\" .sp .It Sy memoryuse Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum in core memoryuse size. .\" .sp .It Sy minpasswordlen Ta number Ta "" Ta The minimum length a local password may be. Used by the .Xr passwd 1 utility. .\" .sp .It Sy nologin Ta file Ta "" Ta If the file exists it will be displayed and the login session will be terminated. .\" .sp .It Sy openfiles Ta number Ta "" Ta Maximum number of open file descriptors per process. .\" .\"XX .sp .\"XX .It Sy password-dead Ta time Ta Li 0 Ta .\"XX Length of time a password may be expired but not quite dead yet. .\"XX When set (for both the client and remote server machine when doing .\"XX remote authentication), a user is allowed to log in just one more .\"XX time after their password (but not account) has expired. .\"XX This allows a grace period for updating their password. .\" .sp .It Sy passwordtime Ta time Ta "" Ta Used by .Xr passwd 1 to set next password expiry date. .\" .sp .It Sy password-warn Ta time Ta Li 2w Ta If the user's password will expire within this length of time then warn the user of this. .\" .sp .It Sy path Ta path Ta Li "/bin /usr/bin" Ta .br Default search path. .\" .sp .It Sy priority Ta number Ta "" Ta Initial priority (nice) level. .\" .sp .It Sy requirehome Ta bool Ta Li false Ta Require home directory to login. .\" .sp .It Sy sbsize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum socket buffer size. .\" .sp .It Sy setenv Ta list Ta "" Ta Comma or whitespace separated list of environment variables and values to be set. Commas and whitespace can be escaped using \e\e. .\" .sp .It Sy shell Ta program Ta "" Ta Session shell to execute rather than the shell specified in the password file. The .Ev SHELL environment variable will contain the shell specified in the password file. .\" .sp .It Sy stacksize Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum stack size. .\" .sp .It Sy tc Ta string Ta "" Ta A "continuation" entry, which must be the last capability provided. More capabilities are read from the named entry. The capabilities given before .Sy tc override those in the entry invoked by .Sy tc . .\" .sp .It Sy term Ta string Ta Li su Ta Default terminal type if not able to determine from other means. .\" .sp .It Sy umask Ta number Ta Li 022 Ta Initial umask. Should always have a leading .Li 0 to assure octal interpretation. See .Xr umask 2 . .\" .sp .It Sy vmemoryuse Ta size Ta "" Ta Maximum virtual address space size. .\" .sp .It Sy welcome Ta file Ta Li /etc/motd Ta File containing welcome message. .Xr login 1 displays this and .Xr sshd 8 sends this. .El .Pp The resource limit entries .Sy ( coredumpsize , .Sy cputime , .Sy datasize , .Sy filesize , .Sy maxproc , .Sy memorylocked , .Sy memoryuse , .Sy openfiles , .Sy sbsize , .Sy stacksize and .Sy vmemoryuse ) actually specify both the maximum and current limits (see .Xr getrlimit 2 ) . The current limit is the one normally used, although the user is permitted to increase the current limit to the maximum limit. The maximum and current limits may be specified individually by appending a .Sq Sy \-max or .Sq Sy \-cur to the capability name (e.g., .Sy openfiles-max and .Sy openfiles-cur Ns No ) . .Pp .Nx will never define capabilities which start with .Li x- or .Li X- ; these are reserved for external use (unless included through contributed software). .Pp The argument types are defined as: .Bl -tag -width programxx .\" .It Sy bool If the name is present, then the boolean value is true; otherwise, it is false. .\" .It Sy file Path name to a text file. .\" .It Sy list A comma or whitespace separated list of values. .\" .It Sy number A number. A leading .Li 0x implies the number is expressed in hexadecimal. A leading .Li 0 implies the number is expressed in octal. Any other number is treated as decimal. .\" .It Sy path A space separated list of path names. If a .Sq Li ~ is the first character in the path name, the .Sq Li ~ is expanded to the user's home directory. .\" .It Sy program A path name to program. .\" .It Sy size A number which expresses a size in bytes. It may have a trailing .Li b to multiply the value by 512, a .Li k to multiply the value by 1 K (1024), and a .Li m to multiply the value by 1 M (1048576). .\" .It Sy time A time in seconds. A time may be expressed as a series of numbers which are added together. Each number may have a trailing character to represent time units: .Bl -tag -width xxx .\" .It Sy y Indicates a number of 365 day years. .\" .It Sy w Indicates a number of 7 day weeks. .\" .It Sy d Indicates a number of 24 hour days. .\" .It Sy h Indicates a number of 60 minute hours. .\" .It Sy m Indicates a number of 60 second minutes. .\" .It Sy s Indicates a number of seconds. .El .Pp For example, to indicate 1 and 1/2 hours, the following string could be used: .Li 1h30m . .El .\" .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/login.conf.db -compact .It Pa /etc/login.conf login class capability database .It Pa /etc/login.conf.db hashed database built with .Xr cap_mkdb 1 .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cap_mkdb 1 , .Xr login 1 , .Xr login_cap 3 , .Xr capfile 5 , .Xr ttys 5 , .Xr ftpd 8 , .Xr sshd 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm configuration file appeared in .Nx 1.5 .