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NWAUTH(1)			    nwauth			     NWAUTH(1)

NAME
       nwauth - Verify username/password

SYNOPSIS
       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 suc‐
       cessful, an error code of 1 is returned. It was	designed  for  use  by
       other programs who want authenticate users via a NetWare server.

       If there is no -P or -n option specified on command line, nwauth always
       expects a password on stdin. If the stdin is a tty, then	 the  user  is
       prompted	 for  a	 password.  Otherwise  nwauth simply reads stdin for a
       password.

       nwauth looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file	server	and  a
       user  name  if  they are not specified on command line. See nwclient(5)
       for more information.  Please  note  that  the  access  permissions  of
       .nwclient MUST be 600, for security reasons.

OPTIONS
       -h
	  -h is used to print a short help text.

       -S server
	  server is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user name
	  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.

       -D
	  nwauth  says that your password is correct if you have existing con‐
	  nection 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 mod‐
	  ule which comes with ncpfs instead anyway).

SEE ALSO
       nwclient(5)

CREDITS
       nwauth was written by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de)

nwauth				  10/27/1996			     NWAUTH(1)
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