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pcnfsd - (PC)NFS authentication request server
pcnfsd provides a personal computer NFS client with the
authentication services. This release supports version 1 of
the PCNFSD protocol.
When pcnfsd receives an authentication request, it will
register the user by validating the user name and password
and returning the corresponding UID and GID pair.
It will look up the user in the /etc/shadow file, or the
passwd.adjunct NIS map, if present, to find the user's password.
It will look up the user in the /etc/passwd file, or
the passwd.byname NIS map, to find the user's UID and GID,
and to find the user's password if there is no /etc/shadow
file or passwd.adjunct NIS map.
- /etc/passwd
- This file should be in the format used on
many flavors of UNIX (SunOS 4.x and later,
4.4BSD, System V Release 4 and later, and
others).
- /etc/shadow
- This file should be in the format used on
many flavors of UNIX (SunOS 5.x and later,
System V Release 4 and later, and others).
na_options(1), na_nis(8)
When the call fails, pcnfsd doesn't fake by setting the UID
and the GID to acceptable values. Passwords that have been
encrypted using Kerberos are not supported.
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