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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and NFS on ISC
Message-ID: <798@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 89 13:45:48 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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In article <1989Sep6.175639.22619@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Sep1.150312.1136@esegue.uucp> johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine) writes:
>>The problem is that the standard pcnfs daemon doesn't know that passwords
>>are in /etc/shadow...
>>I do have to wonder whether they ever bothered to test anything; it's a very
                              ^^^^ = ISC
>>obvious bug.
>
>It's well known that Sun's quality-control department consists of a single
>clerk with an IQ of 37, equipped with a rubber stamp that says "PASSED".

Henry, you weren't reading along this thread. We distribute pcnfsd
in source format. Since Sun doesn't use /etc/shadow, why should we
test it? ISC _does_ use /etc/shadow, and omitted to make the necessary
mods to pcnfsd. I'm sure they'll fix it - in fact the next distribution
of pcnfsd source will include this code #ifdef'd, courtesy the CTIX
developers. Don't blame our PC-NFS SQA for this, though. 

There's always something of a lag between releases of stuff - for example,
we haven't yet got a pcnsfd out there which supports the passwd.adjunct
security features in SunOS - but (1) we're working on it, and (2) the
source is there for anyone to customize or fix.

Geoff

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