aund is a program to allow a Unix system to act as an AUN or Econet fileserver. It supports:

• Clients from System 3 to RISC OS 3.70 (and probably later)
• Servers running Linux, NetBSD and probably others
• Connectivity by AUN (over UDP) or BeebEm emulated Econet
• Read/write operation
• Multiple virtual users (all under one Unix UID)
• Individual users (all under one Unix UID) with passwords and Privilege flags
• Owner permission on directories under the users URD
• Access permissions now supported
• Locked files now supported
• File Server can now be any station number not just 254
• NEWUSER command has been implemented, you can use NEWUSER user, or NEWUSER group.user. The login directory will be created based on what you entered. Note: You cannot have a user created with the same name as a group.
• REMUSER command has been implemented. This does not remove the user files or directory structure.

For general installation instructions, see the INSTALL file. aund is not particularly portable, and expects a BSDish or GNUish C library. Building it on other systems is likely to be unpleasant.

aund is highly experimental and likely to have bugs. Patches to fix these will be gratefully received by Ben Harris bjh21@bjh21.me.uk. aund has a Web site at http://bjh21.me.uk/aund/.

Among aund's bugs are likely to be several that make it unsafe to run on an untrustworthy network. In any case, the fileserver protocol it uses has serious security flaws. In short, keep it off the Internet.

aund itself is released under the following licence:

Copyright (c) 1998, 2010 Ben Harris Copyright (c) 2010 Simon Tatham Copyright (c) 2010 James Woodcock Copyright (c) 2015, 2021 Steve Inglis All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Various parts of its build system are derived from Automake, and these have their own copyright information embedded in them.