From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <14ec7b180607261749q109bfff0gc571d248692c339d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:49:33 -0600 From: "andrey mirtchovski" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Staying up to Date In-Reply-To: <44C80AB2.9040000@exemail.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44C80AB2.9040000@exemail.com.au> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8edb1df8-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 you must have a rather old system. try this: srv -nq tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com sources /n/sources which should allow you to connect without having to authenticate. then you can pull. On 7/26/06, John Boutland wrote: > I recently installed Plan9 and am enjoying getting to know more about > it. The "Staying up to Date" documentation refers to the use of "pull" > for on-line updating. Executing this produces a request for a user name > and password, which I do not have. The same applies to 9fs. Earlier > Plan9 documentation says that an update account is required and that > instructions to obtain this are to be found at > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/newaccount.html. This page is > apparently no longer available and I'm unable to find any reference as > to how to go about obtaining such an account. > Any help would be appreciated. > John >