From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnick" <vugluskr@unicorn.math.spbu.ru>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] some thoughts about auth*
Date: Thu,  7 Nov 2002 03:25:33 +0300
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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.