From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 11 14:19:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10144 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:19:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles249.castles.com [208.214.165.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10137; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05589; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811112216.OAA05589@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Wemm cc: John Polstra , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/login Makefile login.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:45:00 +0800." <199811110745.PAA09429@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:16:34 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Remove support for LOGIN_CAP_AUTH. It was never enabled, it was > > not complete, and it hasn't been touched for 18 months. All the > > ifdefs obfuscate the code. I discussed the LOGIN_CAP_AUTH support > > with its author and he agreed that it is a dead end. I am bringing > > PAM into the tree within the next two weeks. It is much more > > flexible than LOGIN_CAP_AUTH, and will serve as a superior replacement > > for it. > > I think BSDI threatened to give us their code for the implementation of > this in order to try and help create a pseudo-standard for their interface, > didn't they? I don't recall the specifics, I think they wanted to release > BSD/OS 3.0 or 4.0 first though. According to David Nugent (who did the login_cap stuff), they changed their minds about how it should work a pile of times, and then threw it out (or just left it turned off, I don't recall). John's definitely right in that it's a (terrible) dead end. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message