Needed: pcnfsd that knows about /etc/shadow

[Jim Deitch]

In article <15478 at uudell.dell.com> sblair at upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair) writes:
>[a customer emailed this fix to us, thought it'd share it]
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>Here's a quick and simple way to avert any problems with pcnfsd.c A message
>from someone posted to comp.unix.sysv386 clued me in on what was going on.
>pcnfsd, as distributed by SUN, doesn't support shadow password files. It 
>uses getpwnam() to get the /etc/passwd entry for a particular user. Under your
>UNIX, the passwd structure returned does not include the encrypted password. 
>Because of this, it didn't have a password to compare against the one I was
>passing over from the PC NFS client and so it failed the mount every time. 
>To correct this, I added code to pcnfsd.c (source to which is distributed with
>SUN's PC-NFS and FTP Software's PC/TCP) to additionally call getspnam() to 
>access the shadow password file to retrieve the user's password. This was 
>a trivial modification. 
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>Steve Blair	DELL	UNIX	DIVISION sblair at upurbmw.dell.com
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You will find this true of most of the bsd stuff.  I ported pop and
uucpd from BSD and had to do the mods.  Be advised that the structures
between passwd and shadow are a little different, along with the
routines that you have to use.

Jim

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