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From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] General factotum questions
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:06:24 -0800
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Now that my wife is making the migration over to her new iBook (and now
that I have a laptop to borrow), I'm slowly working my way back into
the fold and re-installing Plan 9 on my box at home.

Because it's been a while, I'm unfamiliar with the day-to-day usage of
factotum.  I know what it does and generally how it works, but does
factotum require an authentication server in order to function
properly?  Is it best to run a cpuserver kernel on a standalone
workstation to get full factotum functionality?

On a related note, I was trying to run vncs so I could work from the
couch and compile the cpuserver kernel, set up drawterm on the laptop,
set up Venti, etc., and noted that it uses the Inferno/POP password
from factotum for authentication.  I read that passwd will prompt to
change the Inferno/POP password, which (of course) I tried but it
replied that there was no auth server, which led me to the
factotum/authserver symbiosis question.

(I also read that the fossil snapshots should show up in /snapshot,
which doesn't exist in a standard fossil installation.  Any trick
there, or additional docs I should read to clarify that?)

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

-Jack