On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:09 PM Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2021, at 11:42 AM, Dan Cross wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:17 PM Xiao-Yong Jin > wrote: > > > On Jul 21, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Dan Cross wrote: > > > > ssh linuxpc drawterm -c srvdev.rc > > > > > > > > yes it's a lot of back and forth, but ssh only is needed for running > > > > the process, the data afterwards can use 9p directly. > > > > > > What's the difference between that and using something like u9fs? > > > > auth? > > > > This is using ssh to attach to the Linux machine to import it's > filesystem into the plan9 namespace? Wouldn't authenticating from plan9 to > Linux over SSH be independent of drawterm vs u9fs? > > Drawterm does the proper auth and connect to the plan9 system. > U9fs needs plan9 srv to auth and connect to it. > > If you are running a plan9 system, you probably have your auth > setup. If you have access to a posix system, you probably have ssh > setup and you have access as a normal user, and that enables you > to do ssh and drawterm back. No additional setup required. > > U9fs, on the contrary, states > > It is typically invoked on a Unix machine by > inetd with its standard input and output connected to a net- > work connection, typically TCP on an Ethernet. It typically > runs as user root and multiplexes access to multiple Plan 9 > clients over the single wire. It assumes Plan 9 uids match > Unix login names, and changes to the corresponding Unix > effective uid when processing requests. > > I'm not going to run this and listen on a public interface even if > it does not run as root. > > There are issues with the auth method that u9fs uses, which I'm not > going to discuss here. Nothing prevents you from invoking u9fs over an SSH connection; one needn't run it from inetd, and I doubt anyone has in 20 years. - Dan C. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T09fcdec9c87bfde4-M19bbcae898047761677de240 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription