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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: pcnfsd issues (was Re: TCP/IP and NFS on ISC)
Keywords: pcnfsd, PC-NFS, ISC
Message-ID: <781@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 13:01:16 GMT
References: <899@orbit.UUCP> <776@east.East.Sun.COM> <3062@dell.dell.com>
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Reply-To: geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS)
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In article <3062@dell.dell.com> sauer@dell.UUCP (Charlie Sauer, ) writes:
>In article <776@east.East.Sun.COM> geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>>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.
>
>I think that when we encountered this a while back we determined that pcnfsd
>was not aware that the password field had been moved to /etc/shadow...

A couple of comments:

(1) I thought that the "getpwent" library routine should hide this
   detail from the application. I guess I misheard...

(2) Anyone who's hacked the source to PCNFSD: PLEASE mail me a copy so that
   we can roll all of the versions into a single source for public
   distribution. 


Thanks

Geoff

Geoff Arnold,                              Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM
PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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