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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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