In message <200011102112.eAALCAK17751@saruman.ics.muni.cz>, Jarom r Dolecek wri
tes:
>This is nice feature, though the programs which do authentication
>typically need suid anyway, since need to be able to switch any user context
>(login, su, etc).

The main system ones do; others may not.

>> BTW, almost all of the code for it is available for use in *BSD; the only
>> thing we haven't opened up is the specific login_passwd, etc., programs.
>> I believe that at least one of login or su is available, for instance.

>Where is it possible to download this ?

It's on the source CD; I've sent out tarballs of the relevant stuff before,
and if you want one, let me know and I'll see if I can send you a current
copy.

>> It wouldn't hurt to have support for the PAM API, but I think the BSD
>> Authentication API is a lot cleaner.  I'm not entirely sure that PAM will
>> "win" in the end in FreeBSD, as the engineering groups start talking to
>> each other.  I certainly hope we can deprecate it, at the very least.

>Where is the documentation available ?

There's a man page in section 3 on a BSD/OS box.  ;-)  It's in the tarball.
If you want a copy, let me know; so far as I know, the "open" parts of BSD/OS
aren't being "published" yet, they're just floating on the CD.

-s