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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:10:48 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth(6)
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  The long and short is

  1.	if I want to auth/login on my terminal (T) as user (U) do I need
   
  	hostid=T
  		uid=U

  	in my /lib/ndb/auth?


When you log into your terminal at boot time
as U, T=U.  If you want to be someone else (V)
while logged in as U, you need
	hostid=U
		uid=V
hostid might be more understandable as "hostuid".

  2.	if I want to cpu(1) from my terminal to my cpu server (C), do I
  	need

  	hostid=C
  		uid=!sys uid=!adm uid=*

Yes.

  	even if it is also the authentication server?

Yes.  The auth server is a process that interprets
the rules (among other things).  It doesn't distinguish
itself (at least, not in this regard) from other
CPU servers.

Russ