geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (08/31/89)
In article <899@orbit.UUCP> jeb@pnet51.cts.com (James Borchart) writes: >[Deleted: various problems with ISC Unix TCP/IP and NFS] > > 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 don't have a copy of the ISC stuff running here (lame excuse: I should order one), but assuming that their PCNFSD is derived from the standard source you should be able to start it with a "-d" option to trace each transaction. Of course this assumes that PCNFSD is running: to check this, run the following on the PC: rpcinfo -u <servername> 150001 >[...] Also, does anyone know how to modify >the printer timeout time for PC-NFS, 5 minutes is a little extreme. > Fixed in 3.0.1. If you don't have a copy, contact Sun's Customer Support Division for upgrade info. (Or buy another copy of PC-NFS and use it to upgrade existing nodes as well....) Geoff Arnold, Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most bizarre title of the week: "LAN Standards - Do you Need Them?" (in BYTE)
sauer@dell.dell.com (Charlie Sauer) (09/01/89)
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 don't have a copy of the ISC stuff running here (lame excuse: I should >order one), ... 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... -- Charlie Sauer Dell Computer Corp. !'s:uunet!dell!sauer 9505 Arboretum Blvd @'s:sauer@dell.com Austin, TX 78759-7299 (512) 343-3310
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (09/07/89)
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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most bizarre title of the week: "LAN Standards - Do you Need Them?" (in BYTE)
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (09/07/89)
In article <798@east.East.Sun.COM> geoff@East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes: >>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... My apologies to Sun for blaming them for something that wasn't their fault. That IQ-37 clerk has many things to answer for, but this wasn't one of them. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu