nwclient - configuration file for NWClient program suite
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the rather simple format of the
file $HOME/.nwclient, the configuration file for the
NWClient program suite.
FILE FORMAT
The file $HOME/.nwclient consists of several lines, each
describing a NWClient connection. Lines beginning with #
and empty lines are ignored as comments.
Because you can store passwords in .nwclient, the user
programs will only scan .nwclient when only the file owner
has access rights to the file. The file must be have per
missions 0600.
To specify a NWClient connection, the name of the file
server, the user name to be used and a password is neces
sary. The server name and the user name are specified as
SERVER/USER, and the password is separated by a blank. The
password field can be omitted. In this case the user pro
grams will ask you for a password. If you specify the
password to be just a dash, then no password is used.
The first valid specification has a special meaning: If
the user does not name a server on the command line, the
first specification is used as a 'preferred connection'.
An example might be the following:
# The preferred connection, the user is asked
# for a password
FS311/ME
# And a passwordless account on another server
CD-SERV/GUEST -
With these lines in $HOME/.nwclient, calling 'ncpmount
/mnt' will mount the the file server FS311 with user name
ME on /mnt after asking the user for a password.
ncpmount -S cd-serv /cd will silently mount the server cd-
serv on /cd.
nprint, pqlist and other user programs that require a
valid login also look up $HOME/.nwclient to find a file
server, a user name and possibly a password.
Please note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST
be 600, for security reasons.
ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8), slist(1), pqlist(1), nprint(1)
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