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From: jeb@pnet51.orb.mn.org (James Borchart)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: TCP/IP and NFS for 386/ix
Message-ID: <1058@orbit.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 89 01:45:05 GMT
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  Thanks for all the reply's I got from usenetland.  To summarize:
 
   1: Interactive's 386/ix stores the passwords in file /etc/shadow
      as a security enhancement over /etc/passwd.  AT&T added this feature
      in 3.2.
 
   2: Most software that needs to get at the passwords conveniently
      still looks in the /etc/passwd file.  This is very inconvenient
      for a network environment.
 
   3: The fix is to hack your own version of /usr/rc2.d/pcnfsd based
      on the source code provided on disk 6 of the PC-NFS distribution
      from Sun.  If you need to use some of the other network
      utilities that do not support the new shadow file then you can
      either yell at interactive support until you are blue (which
      I did with no results) or else you are SOL.

All I am trying to do here is to use UNIX(tm) for the server operating 
system instead of NetWare or OS/2 for DOS clients.  I am sort of 
embarrassed because of the generally poor state of commercial software
for this environment.  We evaluated all DOS packages for UNIX server's
and Sun's product was the only useable one.  And now back to the technical
stuff:
 
Is there a version of SLIP for 386/ix floating around anywhere that I can
either purchase, get for free, or hack to work myself?

For the Sun Guru's out there (especially geoff@East.Sun.COM):  How
can a DOS client set or change their password without signing on to the
UNIX host under PC-NFS?


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