Re: [9fans] pwd

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:33:59PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> 
> CPU servers get around this by either not asking for a password at all
> and having a local KFS file system (started by the kernel) off of which
> they'll start the auth server, or, if talking to a file server, by
> timing out and saying, ``okay, I'll use the key that's in my nvram to
> authenticate myself to the file server....'' (the file server also
> knows it's own key, so that's okay) and then starting up the auth
> server.
> 
This does baffle me.  I'm sure 2ed had the option to tell the
AUTH server (CPU server, to be exact) that there it was
authoritative, without waiting for a timeout.  But I could
never figure out if it was 0.0.0.0 (which caused a panic) or
one of 0.1.0.0 or 0.0.1.0 or whatever or how to make it work.

Pity, because I'm sure I had it all working (2ed, that was)
until I lost the NVRAM and now I have to press enter for each
IP detail _and_ wait for the timeout and I have no idea how to
put that Humpty-Dumpty together again.

++L