2.2.5.4 AUTHUSINGUNIXCREDS_PROC (PROC 3)
A request to fetch the UNIX account details for a given UNIX user name and password.
This procedure is typically used by clients that are doing a simple authentication by providing a user name and password. The password string is the string returned by a call to the crypt function API using the user's cleartext password, as specified in [IEEE1003.1] System Interfaces Volume (XSH) Chapter 3.
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unix_auth AUTHUSINGUNIXCREDS_PROC( unix_user_auth UnixUserAuth );
UnixUserAuth: UNIX user name and password to use as the search criteria.<4>
Return Value: A unix_auth record that contains the mapped UNIX user account details for the specified UNIX account. Whenever the lookup request for a specified UNIX account fails to find a corresponding UNIX account map, the User Name Mapping Protocol server MUST return a SUNRPC status of MSG_ACCEPTED with an accept status of SUCCESS. It MUST also return a zero-length string in the UnixAccountPassword member of the returned structure.