* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-24 4:03 Russ Cox
2000-07-24 5:39 ` [9fans] INIT and AUTH - Was: " Lucio De Re
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From: Russ Cox @ 2000-07-24 4:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
The VNC client we have will be in the next update,
which should happen somewhat soon.
If you need a VNC client before then,
bug me or Richard Miller, depending on
which one you want (I think they're the
same on true color displays; on 8-bit
displays, the one we have uses the
default RGBV map, while I believe Richard's
changes the color map to the second
edition RGB332 map).
Russ
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* [9fans] INIT and AUTH - Was: X11 on 3rd Edition
2000-07-24 4:03 [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition Russ Cox
@ 2000-07-24 5:39 ` Lucio De Re
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From: Lucio De Re @ 2000-07-24 5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:03:43AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> The VNC client we have will be in the next update,
> which should happen somewhat soon.
>
I noticed that there were two changes to /sys/src/cmd/init.c, one to
allow for sysname() as a function, and the other commenting out the
pass() function call. The former affected - incorrectly, in my
opinion - the name of the environment?device entry by name "sysname",
because of the global search and replacement, the latter I could not
understand, but I restored the call in my particular instance, to give
me 2ed-style behaviour in a CPU server.
Care to include a fix for this in the next update?
And is there a godd reason to keep the "pass()" call out of the way?
Another difference I noticed between 2ed and 3ed is the fact that most
services on a CPU server now run as "none". As mentioned, that is a
useful security precaution, and would be usefully documented for the
services involved. Presumably, something along these lines is
happening: if the service is found in /rc/bin/service, it is run under
id "none", if in /rc/bin/service.auth (and elsewhere?), the host id is
used.
On an authentication server (I'm beginning to get a clearer picture of
those dance steps, I think) it would be possible to specify arbitrary
owner ids for services, within the authority granted to the host by
the /lib/ndb/auth file.
Here, I think I start getting confused: who looks at /lib/ndb/auth?
And where there's more than one, which one is used? I would suggest,
unless I'm missing the point, that there ought to be a single point of
such authority, at least for a single authentication domain. Is this
at all possible to implement securely? It would certainly be a bit of
a chicken-and-egg situation where the /lib/ndb/auth file would define
the authentication domain as well as the authentication proxy it
accepted, but additional /lib/ndb/auth files could throw this totally.
I presume Kerberos has some mechanism to resolve this issue?
(Sorry, I'm just an aspiring security consultant, the deeper I dig,
the smaller my field of competence seems to become.)
++L
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* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-24 7:53 miller
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From: miller @ 2000-07-24 7:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com writes:
> If you need a VNC client before then,
> bug me or Richard Miller, depending on
> which one you want (I think they're the
> same on true color displays; on 8-bit
> displays, the one we have uses the
> default RGBV map, while I believe Richard's
> changes the color map to the second
> edition RGB332 map).
Not quite -- the host's colourmap is loaded only if
you specify the '-m' option. Otherwise it uses
rgbv.
-- Richard
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* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
2000-07-23 20:28 miller
@ 2000-07-24 3:43 ` Lucio De Re
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From: Lucio De Re @ 2000-07-24 3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 09:28:52PM +0000, Richard Miller wrote:
>
> "David P. Boswell" <dpb@9cpu.net> writes:
>
> > A VNC client would also work for my X needs. Can it be made available ?
>
> I've updated my Plan 9 VNC viewer to use libdraw -- I'll send you a copy.
>
Me too, please. Perhaps Russ would like to post both versions on his
web site?
++L
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* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-23 20:28 miller
2000-07-24 3:43 ` Lucio De Re
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From: miller @ 2000-07-23 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
"David P. Boswell" <dpb@9cpu.net> writes:
> A VNC client would also work for my X needs. Can it be made available ?
I've updated my Plan 9 VNC viewer to use libdraw -- I'll send you a copy.
-- Richard Miller
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* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-23 2:47 David P. Boswell
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From: David P. Boswell @ 2000-07-23 2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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A VNC client would also work for my X needs. Can it be made available ?
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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:08:04 -0400
Message-ID: <200007230208.WAA07118@cse.psu.edu>
We recently put a VNC client together,
and I at least have found it much nicer to use
than the X server when stuck using X.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-23 2:08 Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2000-07-23 2:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
We recently put a VNC client together,
and I at least have found it much nicer to use
than the X server when stuck using X.
Russ
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* [9fans] X11 on 3rd Edition
@ 2000-07-23 0:29 David P. Boswell
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From: David P. Boswell @ 2000-07-23 0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Today I built the X11 distribution released for 2nd Edition. All the client programs
work fine on a remote X server.
What would be involved to update the server Xbr to the new graphics environment ?
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