Re: [9fans] Passwords on KFS file system

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

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:30:34AM +0000, Blake McBride wrote:
>
> My Plan 9 system is stand-alone (no networking) and uses the
> kfs file system.  Looking at the docs I think I see how to add
> a new user to my system (disk/kfscmd newuser).  Is that correct?

Yes.  That presumably updates the /adm/users file and creates a home
directory.

> But, no where can I find how to give glenda or a new user a
> password.  Thre appears to be ways of using passwords with
> a network but not on a stand-alone machine.
>
That makes sense, as you'd need auth services to track passwords, most
importantly, you need NVRAM to store the crypt key that protects the
password files (/adm/*key, or somesuch).

I imagine you could bend the terminal kernel to run authentication,
but you'll gain little for your efforts, there is no safeguard on a
terminal server against malicious behaviour by different users.

> Any help would be appreciated.
>
Encouragement?  You're way ahead of where I was after as little
exposure as you have :-)

++L