Subject: Re: Login classes
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: None <alaric@alaric-williams.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 06/14/2000 18:50:24
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Peter Seebach wrote:
> BSD Authentication is the BSD/OS authentication system. Basically, it's
> a login.conf extension that lets you specify authentication methods per
> login class. You then have programs with names like
[...]
> of the relevant docs to someone a while back. Most of the code involved is
> available and redistributable, but the actual login_foo programs aren't,
> and I think /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/su aren't either.
Hmmm, I saw those fields in the login.conf man page on FreeBSD but it
didn't explain them. That might be cool.
Soon (couple of months0 I should have a machine tracking -current set
aside for development of such stuff. I'll look into it!
>
> -s
>
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