geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (09/01/89)
In article <3062@dell.dell.com> sauer@dell.UUCP (Charlie Sauer, ) writes: >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 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... A couple of comments: (1) I thought that the "getpwent" library routine should hide this detail from the application. I guess I misheard... (2) Anyone who's hacked the source to PCNFSD: PLEASE mail me a copy so that we can roll all of the versions into a single source for public distribution. Thanks 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)