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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnick" <vugluskr@unicorn.math.spbu.ru>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] some thoughts about auth*
Date: Thu,  7 Nov 2002 03:25:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021107032533.A30255@unicorn.math.spbu.ru> (raw)

1. Isn't it strange that getauthkey.c:getauthkey actually
   returns .machkey ? Is there any historical reason for
   it to be getauthkey() especially when there is a
   field in Nvrsafe called .authkey ?

2. I'm not exactly sure that I understand why Nvrsafe has
   this .authkey member in it. The only place where it is
   being used by the regular Plan9, not a dedicated Plan9
   FS is in cmd/disk/kfs/auth.c which doesn't seem to make
   much sense, when nobody sets it up.

   As a matter of fact, I was able to spot it, only because
   in my particular case auth/wrkey *always* sets it to
   'roman' which is honorable, but very weird :)

All in all, I'd be grateful for any insights or explanations.

Thanks in advance,
Roman.


             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-07  0:25 Roman V. Shaposhnick [this message]
2002-11-07  2:42 presotto
2002-11-07 19:47 Richard Miller
2002-11-08  2:56 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
     [not found] <fce4571861a826ddf4677ec3cecbe995@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-11-12 17:37 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick

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