From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm vs Autentication Server
From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:15:55 +0100
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>>If even the latter request is too hard to honor,
>>then at least I would like to ask Plan 9 code owners to provide for ability
>>to start "authentication server"
>>manually, thus allowing to fully upgrade from Plan 9 terminal to Plan 9 CPU
>>server "on the fly",
>>i.e. without reconfiguring and rebuilding the kernel.

i think you might be able to do that, by running auth/keyfs (see
keyfs(4)) and appropriate variants of aux/listen in a name space in
which you've previously run authfs(4) to provide suitably named
replacement authentication files to allow you to set your own keys.