diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml
index 225b0a116e..77ad42e158 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users/chapter.sgml
@@ -782,6 +782,17 @@ passwd: done</screen>
       string processed accordingly depending on the name.  Setting up login
       classes and capabilities is rather straight-forward and is also
       described in &man.login.conf.5;.</para>
+      
+    <note>
+      <para>The system does not read the configuration in
+	<filename>/etc/login.conf</filename> directly, but reads the database
+	file <filename>/etc/login.conf.db</filename>.
+	To generate <filename>/etc/login.conf.db</filename> from
+	<filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>, execute the following
+	command:</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cap_mkdb -f /etc/login.conf /etc/login.conf</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
 
     <para>Resource limits are different from plain vanilla login
       capabilities in two ways.  First, for every limit, there is a soft