Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:12:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" <mpp@mpp.minn.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just my imagination... Message-ID: <199602140112.TAA00910@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199602132313.AAA06499@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 14, 96 00:13:12 am
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J Wunsch wrote:
>
> As Rashid Karimov wrote:
> >
> > Hi there folx,
>
> (Btw., you're one year late. :)
>
> > There is actually something on "user classes":
>
> > Any support for it in FreeBSD ? I hate to ask about it, but
> > some ppl here want to get BSDI in place mostly because of this
> > stuff.
>
> Nope. I would hate it if we had to re-invent the wheel for it, but i
> guess it'll be hard to convince the BSDi folks to release at least the
> specs to the public.
>
> The framework for this has already been laid down in 4.4BSD, but the
> ``class'' field in passwd(5) remained empty and unused. Everything
> looks like it hasn't got ready in time for 4.4BSD, and thus been
> omitted. Now, i assume some of the former CSRG member currently with
> BSDi did complete the intended work.
I've toyed around with the idea of going in and implementing
the "class" database. Some of the things that it would be good for
that I can think of off the top of my head:
password expiration/account expiration terms
process limits (cpu, memory, nproc, etc...setrlimit type stuff)
login limits (e.g. X # of users of this "class")
quota "classes" (could be used integrated into the "protype-user"
stuff in edquota somehow)
I'm sure there is a lot more than I can't think of right now.
If BSDI would let us see what they store in their database (it
is supposed to be a termcap style database after all),
working backwards from there wouldn't be too hard.
--
Mike Pritchard
mpp@minn.net
"Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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