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List:       netatalk
Subject:    Re: [netatalk-admins] HELP: Using encrypted passwords (RAND2NUM)
From:       Magnus Stenman <stone () hkust ! se>
Date:       1999-02-28 14:31:33
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You don't have to search the net for the answer...
look in README.ASUN (in the asun tarball):

...
i've added Randnum and 2-Way Randnum support. part of the code is
compliments of<shirsch@ibm.net>. as afp doesn't do the
fallback thing in case of failure, Randnum and 2-Way Randnum
are only available via afpd.conf. To get them to work, each
user must have a ~/.passwd file (not read-/writeable by anyone
else) with a password. this is a potential security problem as
root can read the password. this may be compensated, to some
extent, by the fact that your password never goes onto the wire
when mounting a volume.
...

/magnus

Patrick Gibson wrote:
> 
> I have installed netatalk with DES support and I would like to use encrypted
> logins with the -RAND2NUM option. When I go to login to the server from my
> Mac, I get the following error in my /var/log/messages file:
> 
> Feb 26 11:15:30 obsidian afpd[27856]: Failed to open /home/patrick/.passwd
> 
> Do I have to create some sort of special password file? How come it does
> just use /etc/passwd?
> 
> I've search high and low on the net for an answer to the question, but all I
> found was other people asking the same question. In any of the replies I've
> read to other people's questions, no one has ever mentioned anything about
> the ~/.passwd file. How do I create it? Is there any documentation on this?
> I can't find anything in the man pages that remotely relates to this.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --[ iMac therefore I am ]------------------+
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