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Date: Sat,  8 Aug 2009 06:12:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server
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> The man page says it prompts for a password on the cpu server, but
> that doesn't happen; the source has a pass function but it's not
> called anywhere.

It used to, but the new security model invalidated that concept: some
of its foundations fell foul of the new design and were discarded.
That was where it was decided (I believe, I wasn't there) that console
security on CPU servers was a chimera that did not need further
effort.

I remember querying it out of habit at the time, I haven't looked back
since.

++L