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From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Subject: Re: [9fans] apu/auth standalone..
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:07:31 +0100
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>>machine one). I managed to find out that I lack the $auth environment
>>var, which termrc sets from $sysname.

it is not an environment variable (if we are talking about the same thing).
it is a metaname interpreted by cs; see ndb(6).  very roughly, cs(8)
uses the value in the auth= entry closest to the host in question,
considering the network, subnet and host entries in the /lib/ndb
database files. see /lib/ndb/local.complicated for example and ndb(6),
but read the latter carefully.