From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Passwords on KFS file system Message-ID: <20020618120654.S5532@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Blake McBride on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:30:34AM +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:06:54 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b21de6b2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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