What is PERMgeneric?
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 09:43:08 UTC 2000
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeo at merle.acns.nwu.edu> writes:
> Can someone explain to me what the purpose is/was of the PERMgeneric()
> function in nnrpd/commands.c? It looks like an attempt at a generic
> authentication callout, but it isn't referenced anywhere else in the
> source.
It's a very old generic callout mechanism that still works, but that
almost no one uses. Basically, if you give nnrpd a command like:
AUTHINFO GENERIC authenticator some arguments
then it will look for a program named authenticator in
pathbin/auth/generic and if one is found will run it, passing it the
arguments, and then determine access based on its results.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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