Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:14:32 +0300 From: Anthony Pankov <ap00@mail.ru> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: is there a future for user accounting (getpw* replacement) Message-ID: <661730512.20200217141432@mail.ru>
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Greetings, I'm wondering has anybody any thoughts about user accounting provided at the system level? It seems that getpw* doesn't suit the needs of application services. All applications has some external/internal mechanism for storing and retrieving user properties (settings, roles etc). Furthermore they implement own security policy based on this mechanism. Mostly it is done via LDAP connection or internal store (as for database). It seems that all application developers will be more happy if OS will have a few functions to do the things such as: - list users of some type; - get user properties specific to application; - get user roles specific to application -? Does anybody has thoughts about what OS must provide to keep applications consistency and make developers happier? -- Best regard, Anthony Pankov mailto:ap00@mail.ru
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