LOGIN_AUTH(3)

💅 LOGIN_AUTH(3) — the login class auth girlies

okay so bestie, welcome to LOGIN_AUTH(3) — this is the authentication style support library for the login class capabilities database. yes that's a mouthful, no i will not be shortening it, it's iconic 💖

🦋 LIBRARY

System Utilities Library — that's libutil, and you link it with -lutil. write it down, you WILL forget it, we've all been there 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <login_cap.h>

void
auth_checknologin(login_cap_t *lc);

int
auth_cat(const char *file);

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. two headers, two functions, slay ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this little set of functions is here to support the login class authorisation style interface — the one that login.conf(5) hands you 🫶

that's literally the whole description ngl. they're the support girlies. the backup dancers. the ones making the login class authorisation style interface actually werk 💅

i know, i know — the manpage is short. but short and iconic beats long and boring, periodt 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• getcap(3)
• login_cap(3)
• login_class(3)
• login.conf(5)
• termcap(5)

go read those too, bestie, they're the rest of the lore 🦋

👑 HISTORY 👑

the way that auth_checknologin() and auth_cat() first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.5 — literal pioneers, main character energy from day one ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this little gem comes from Debian, dated May 10, 2020 — so you know exactly where it came from and when it was living its truth 🎀 mwah, go forth and auth responsibly 💅✨