From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 02:24:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA02425 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02375 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:24:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA20668; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:23:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA01360; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:23:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA22980; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:53:00 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512230953.KAA22980@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: User classes??? (was: BSD/OS 2.1 and BSDI information (fwd) To: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 10:53:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512211704.TAA09971@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> from "Andrew V. Stesin" at Dec 21, 95 07:04:48 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 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. ;-)