Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:32:49 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "login classes" Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960715102623.5435B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199607141532.JAA14476@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > Well, I was a Busy Boy today. While doing some other task%, I decided to > > start implementing login classes for FreeBSD. > > Do you have a better description of them other than 'allowing you to use > separate authention'? It seems I've heard lots of folks 'wish' for them > in different contexts, so I'm not exactly sure *what* they do at any > level, other than they can do many things. :) > You can have classes of users that ... * have different resource limits * have different authentication methods I could probably think of more things, but I thought the mechanism for providing different authentication methods was pretty cool. It's a good step towards providing the facility, but Unix login will someday be obsolete and a general authentication layer should be designed such that you could plug in different methods without doing a lot of rewriting. -mike hancockhelp
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