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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: pluggable authentication modules
To: dugsong@monkey.org (Douglas Song)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 19:55:29 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960627171328.3683B-100000@naughty.monkey.org> from Douglas Song at "Jun 27, 96 05:18:09 pm"
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Douglas Song wrote:
> Is any work being done on implementing PAM (pluggable authentication
> modules) for FreeBSD? I already know of some people in the Linux camp that
> are working on it. I would like to help code this, if anyone's interested.
> 
> More information on PAM is available from the OSF RFC 86.0, or at
> 
> http://fangorn.ncsa.uiuc.edu/faq/motif.faq.034.html

Sorry I get to you so late...

Anyway: Sean Eric fagan is busy implementing login classes for FreeBSD.
This functionality would be the same as the BSDi implementation.
See their docs, or manual pages.
Basically this will indeed give you authentication of any type. 


-Guido