Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:34:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Is it just my imagination... Message-ID: <199602140734.IAA13244@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602140112.TAA00910@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Feb 13, 96 07:12:46 pm
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As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > The framework for this has already been laid down in 4.4BSD, but the > > ``class'' field in passwd(5) remained empty and unused. > If BSDI would let us see what they store in their database (it > is supposed to be a termcap style database after all), > working backwards from there wouldn't be too hard. I don't ask for giving away any actual code, but rather for a description so that one who wants to re-implement it isn't forced to do this in an incompatible way. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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