From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 13 23:52:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA21995 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA21987 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz101.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA27256 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:51:51 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA22582 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:51:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id IAA13244 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:34:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602140734.IAA13244@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Is it just my imagination... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:34:00 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602140112.TAA00910@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Feb 13, 96 07:12:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)