In message <20030908003619.GA6059@snew.com>, Chuck Yerkes writes:
>BSD Auth:
>  get the libraries working.
>Run through the code that might use it (or borrow wholesale from
>a project that's got it).  This effort itself will give you the abstractions
>you need for authentication.  That's a huge step.

>And you make BSD Auth work.

I could happily do this.  I mean, that part's easy; the only hard part
would be writing /usr/libexec/login_*.  I might even be able to fast-talk
one of the Wind River people into releasing some of that code.

Tell ya what.

Who here wants a small separate source tree which builds:
	1.  libbsdauth.a
	2.  /usr/include/auth.h (or whatever it gets called)
	3.  Patched versions of "login" and "su".

I can probably produce one.  Maybe someone else can clean the code up so
it's of tolerable quality.  :P

>If, later, someone wants to try PAM, then the "getpwent()" routines
>will have been moved in (for ex.) su(1) to a more generic "getauthinfo()"
>type of routined.

Good point.

-s