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From: johnl@esegue.uucp (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and NFS on ISC
Summary: /etc/shadow
Message-ID: <1989Sep1.150312.1136@esegue.uucp>
Date: 1 Sep 89 15:03:12 GMT
References: <899@orbit.UUCP> <776@east.East.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <899@orbit.UUCP> jeb@pnet51.cts.com (James Borchart) writes:
>        3: SUN's PC-NFS, running on a PC connected by ethernet to the
>           ISC server, gets "authentication failure" no matter what is typed
>           for the username and password, or if the user needs a password.

The problem is that the standard pcnfs daemon doesn't know that passwords
are in /etc/shadow.  The source to the daemon comes with PC-NFS, and it took
me only a few minutes to add the call to getspnam() (which for some obscure
reason is documented only in the Integrated Software Development Guide) and
recompile, after which it worked fine.

I do have to wonder whether they ever bothered to test anything; it's a very
obvious bug.
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