From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:54:24 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: Problems that I'm having...
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>>/lib/ndb/local file to set up my network.  (It is weird that
>>/lib/ndb/auth has hostid=authid instead of hostid=p9auth, but that is
>>what the installation did, so...)  I also tarred /usr/tor to /usr/none

hostid should be the authentication USER name, not the name of
a machine.  it sounds as though you answered `authid' to the
request `Enter the site authentication user id' (`Example: bootes').
if so, the installation did the right thing, rather than something
weird, but you've undone that, and put it into a strange state.
that might explain the subsequent problems with authentication.
change it back to authid.  see the end of auth(6) `Data Base'
for details on /lib/ndb/auth.