Subject: Re: PAM & Re: BSD Authentication
To: None <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/09/2003 10:15:34
> In message <20030908222606.GA18420@snew.com>, Chuck Yerkes writes:
> >2) This thread started with Peter Seebach missing BSD Auth from
> >   his BSDi days and wanting it in NetBSD.  I think he was offering
> >   to do a bit of the work.  OpenBSD has free code that does it.
> >   WindRiver has BSDi's code and it's not free.
> 
> Actually, the OpenBSD code is, almost entirely, the BSDi code, which
> *IS* free.  Except for the client code in login/su/etc.  So, if you
> look at the tarball Itojun contributed (THANK YOU!!!), there's still a
> lot of BSDi copyrights.  And yes, just in case, I bounced a copy of the
> tarball to the guy who wrote the code.

	BSDi gracefully releasd the BSD auth code to public.  don't remember
	where we can grab the original tarball, but if you see the copyright
	boilerplate it is clearly marked with standard BSD license.

itojun