auth_cat(3)

auth_cat3

Authentication style support library for login class capabilities database

Part of login_auth(3).

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <login_cap.h>

void

auth_checknologin(login_cap_t *lc);

int

auth_cat(const char *file);

Library

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

Overview

This set of functions support the login class authorisation style interface provided by login.conf(5).

Releases

75 releases since FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE; the text changed 41 times.

  1. 3.2
  2. 3.3
  3. 3.4
  4. 3.5–3.5.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 4.1–4.3
  7. 4.4
  8. 4.5–4.11
  9. 5.0–6.3
  10. 6.4
  11. 7.0
  12. 7.1
  13. 7.2
  14. 7.3
  15. 7.4
  16. 8.0
  17. 8.1
  18. 8.2
  19. 8.3
  20. 8.4
  21. 9.0
  22. 9.1
  23. 9.2
  24. 9.3
  25. 10.0
  26. 10.1
  27. 10.2
  28. 10.3
  29. 10.4
  30. 11.0
  31. 11.1
  32. 11.2
  33. 11.3
  34. 11.4
  35. 12.0
  36. 12.1
  37. 12.2
  38. 12.3
  39. 12.4
  40. 13.0–13.2
  41. 13.3–14.3
  42. 14.4–16.0

History

The functions auth_checknologin() and auth_cat() first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.5.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.