From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: passwd replacement that works with Sun's shadow passwd file?
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:05:24 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of edelheit@smiley.mitre.org (Jeff Edelheit):
:Sun has a product called "Account Resource Manager" (ARM) that
:supports the following features:  Password aging, account
:expiration/activation, disable lgoin after invalid attempts,
:autologout, autolockscreen, dialpass and portpass passwords, access
:hours and password qualification.  ARM works with "plain vanilla" Sun
:O/S, with "c2convert" turned on and with the Basic Security Module.
:ARM is an unbundled product.

Don't you love the trend to ship shoddy systems and then charge
money to get the reasonable behaviour you're otherwise expecting
from the system?    Here's the new pricebook for TLA Softare, Inc:

    Item        Price
    ---------------------
1   /bin/cat   $1000
        -v       250
        -n       150
        -b       125
        -u       175
        -s       150
        -u       125
        -e       100
        -t       100

        Or buy them all for just $2000 and receive a $175 discount!

	Note that all prices are per-user.  Thus, if you want 5 users to
	be able to use these, multiply by 5.  If you want merely N
	concurrent users, you want floating licenses, there's a 25%
	premium charge on being able to float the licences, so it would
	cost (N_users * base_price) * 1.25.

    Item         Price 
    ---------------------
2   sendmail    $5000
        w/DNS    2500
        w/YP     1500
        w/DBM    1000
     +security
      bug fixes  8000

      This is to handle up to 100 messages a day.  For 101-500 messages,
      add 20%, for 501-1000 messages, add 40% to the previous 120%,
      for 1001-5000 messages, add 60% to the previous 168%, and for
      infinite message delivery, it's just 11% over the previous
      268.8%, or 300% the base price.

    Item         Price 
    ---------------------
3   passwd      $4000

            add on price    feature decription

                 3000       shadow passwords
                 2000       password qualification
                 1750       password aging
                 1500       DBM
                 1250       account expiration/activation
                 1250       disable login after invalid attempts
                  750       autologout
                  500       autolockscreen
                  500       dialpass and portpass passwords
                  500       access hours

    Or get the whole package for just $15000, a $2000 discount!

    Note that this is only for 0-50 users.  For more users, you 
    must pay a premium as follows:

    Users      Multiplier

    0-50        1
    51-100      1.25
    101-200     1.5
    201-500     2
    501-1000    3
    1001+       5

    (Note that the DBM option is required for all packages
    over 200 users)


--tom

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