From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 09:53:54 -0500 From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf.toronto.edu Subject: trouble with authentication Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05fec344-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19941221145354.bhT4n-68zM6KB6bDjFRws625mSUyZ0CICA3pqumoKv8@z> Andre.Suhr@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Andre Suhr) wrote: > I'm insatlling Plan 9 on two SPARCstation ELC with even 12 MByte Ram > . I've got trouble when I try to start the authentication file > system(keyfs). On terminal it prints out: > term% auth/wrkey > Password: > onfirm password: > auth/wrkey: can't open nvram Terminals don't use the nvram, you'll have to boot your system as a cpu server in order to setup the authentication server. There are more details about this in the installation guide I wrote (available from the web site http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/) but things will probably change a lot when the next release is out. Happy Holidays everyone, Steve