login.conf

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    German keyboard layout

    Hi, in /etc/login.conf I added german|German Users Accounts:\ :charset=ISO-8859-15:\ :lang=de_DE.ISO8859-15:\ :tc=default: and then ran sudo cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf /etc.rc.conf has keymap="de" After that I did sudo pw user mod helmut -L german [helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ sudo...
    • Helmut
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    • keyboard mapping login.conf
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: General
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    locale issues

    I'm trying to extract from a tarball. (I don’t need help with that.) But I get this nonsense: Pathname can’t be converted from UTF-8 to current locale When I enter the command locale the LANG= line is empty. Hoo boy Yup! everything that's easy in any version of linux is like being...
    • SingerMan
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    • lang locale login.conf shell
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: General
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    Daemon users and login classes

    Hi folks, Many daemons create specific users for providing their services. Looking at /etc/rc.subr and specific scripts such as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gitlab_runner I see that su -m $user is used to switch to the user. It appears that the use of -m will prevent any use of login classes and hence...
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