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Subject: Re: [9fans] Standalone, drawterm and auth
From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
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Date: Fri,  7 Nov 2003 17:41:04 -0800
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> - Is it possible to connect to Plan 9 using drawterm without auth server?
> (Something like userid/password but no special authentication)

I've not tried this, but it seems that you could use an authentication
method of "none" in drawterm (needs to be added) and then uncomment
the "none" authentication method in cpu.c (look at cpu -R path). And then
you'll be none, so I don't know how helpful that would be.

> - I am trying to use the Plan 9 machine in standalone mode, as well as
> serve one or two machines using drawterm (like both standalone and CPU
> server). Is it possible? If so, what auth processes should I be running? Is
> factotum required or not? If there is any document/posting present already,
> please let me know.

A cpu/auth/kfs-or-fossil with vga support compiled in would do.  Alternatively
you also could drawterm in.  Factotum is required for each user and running it
on a cpu becomes a little tricky, but you can have one factotum per user running
as in this script that Geoff posted a while back:

#!/bin/rc

if (! test -f /srv/factotum.$user)
	auth/factotum -s factotum.$user
mount -b /srv/factotum.$user /mnt