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NAME¶
nwauth - Verify username/passwordSYNOPSIS¶
nwauth [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -D ]DESCRIPTION¶
nwauth does nothing but logging into a NetWare server. If the login was successful, an error code of 0 is returned. If the login was not successful, an error code of 1 is returned. It was designed for use by other programs who want authenticate users via a NetWare server.OPTIONS¶
-h-h is used to print a short help
text.
server is the name of the server you
want to use.
If the user name your NetWare administrator
gave to you differs from your unix user-id, you should use -U to tell
the server about your NetWare user name.
nwauth says that your password is
correct if you have existing connection to server with name user
name. This is handy for some shell scripts, but it is unacceptable for
authorization modules, such as PAM, PHP or Apache. It was pointed to me that
this behavior was not well known, and there exist at least one PAM module
which does not know that (this module is not part of ncpfs; you should use PAM
module which comes with ncpfs instead anyway).
SEE ALSO¶
nwclient(5)CREDITS¶
nwauth was written by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de)10/27/1996 | nwauth |