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1.1     ! bowersj2    1: On the library servers, it is a routine in \texttt{lond} that does
        !             2: the authentication. It checks if this is the user's homeserver, checks
        !             3: the password, and answers with {}``unknown\_user'', {}``authorized''
        !             4: or {}``non\_authorized''.
        !             5: 
        !             6: Determination if this is the user's homeserver is done by the presence
        !             7: of his or her password file in
        !             8: 
        !             9: \texttt{/home/httpd/lonUsers/domain/1.char/2.char/3.char/username/passwd}
        !            10: 
        !            11: for example
        !            12: 
        !            13: \texttt{/home/httpd/lonUsers/msu/s/m/i/smith/passwd}
        !            14: 
        !            15: The password is stored in the format \texttt{mechanism:info}, where
        !            16: mechanism can currently be unix, krb4 or internal. For krb4, the info
        !            17: is the Kerberos domain, for internal it is the crypt password itself.
        !            18: unix simply authenticates against /etc/passwd. 
        !            19: