In message <200309251112.h8PBCEMZ009276@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>, John Nemeth write
s:
>     I see your point here.  However, I'm wondering if it is even
>possible to create a libbsdauth.so.  Just for my education, could you
>describe the process of authenticating using BSD Auth.  In particular,
>I'm wondering how passwords are gathered and how they might be passed
>along if multiple modules are specified.
>
>     BTW, can you specify how the output of a module is to be
>interpreted?  I.e. if module A give its blessing then that is
>sufficient; otherwise, modules X, Y, and Z all have to give their
>blessing.

I'm not entirely clear on this, but I think an auth module can decide not
to do anything, in which case, the next module in line would get tried.

-s