From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 15 10:42:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07192 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07186 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA26543; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:24:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611151824.LAA26543@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: User class/capabilities database To: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:24:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "David Nugent" at Nov 15, 96 09:55:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There is a reference in both man pages and source files to > the user class being a pointer to a "termcap-like" capabilities > and attributes database. I assume that support for this is not > completed, or has ceased. Is this a FreeBSD-specific project, > or is it tied to bsd 4.4lite? I could use this sorts of hook > in an accounting system I'm developing, and was wondering to > whom I might speak for mor information on the subject. > > Specifically, I need to know: > > 1) Is this a FreeBSD specific facility, or is it a bsd one > (involving not only FreeBSD developers but the others)? It's an unimplemented one which BSDI has since implemented. > 2) How much work has already been done already in terms of > standardising user attributes (and what they are), Talk to SEF; he was working on a free implementation. > 3) What existing code supports the facility, and how much > freedom exists to expand the concept to cover user/session > accounting in general. It's non-standard stuff, and will probably be implementation dependent unless the free code wins, or unless BSDI shares their implementation to make it the standard. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.