Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:53:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User classes??? (was: BSD/OS 2.1 and BSDI information (fwd) Message-ID: <199512230953.KAA22980@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512211704.TAA09971@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> from "Andrew V. Stesin" at Dec 21, 95 07:04:48 pm
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As Andrew V. Stesin wrote: > > I'd want to attract a bit of attention to the following issue: > > : User classes > Can anyone explain, what does it _really_ mean? How is it done? > Is this a BSDI's own invention or there are some existing prototypes > of this feature? It seems to be the intention of the fathers of 4.4BSD to have this feature in the system (RTFM passwd(5)), the field in master.passwd is already reserved for it, but the actual implementation has been missing. I assume, due to an apparent lack of time. It would be interesting to know how BSD/OS does use this field, so somebody could make a free reimplementation. (I doubt that the creators of 4.4BSD are going to release it to the public, now that many of them are with BSDi.) -- 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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