From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 15: 4:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from octarine.itsc.adfa.edu.au (octarine.itsc.adfa.edu.au [131.236.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA4437B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bron.adfa.edu.au (a104016.student.adfa.edu.au [131.236.104.16]) by octarine.itsc.adfa.edu.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9HM4lR11443 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:04:47 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <39ECDEF2.249805E1@adfa.edu.au> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:21:22 +1000 From: Bronwen Harrigan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: user authentication controls X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To whom it may concern, I am a 3rd year information systems student at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia and am currently doing an assignment on user authentication controls for Linux and FreeBSD. Can you please tell me what user authentication controls exist for FreeBSD and/or Linux? Also, is FreeBSD and/or Linux currently able to support or use any biometric encryption technology? If so, what sort? Your help with this assignment would be greatly appreciated, Yours kindly, Bronwen Harrigan Officer Cadet ADFA Canberra, Australia (02) 6268 6222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message