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From: Andrew <afrayedknot@thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] auth/login
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:41:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021121074145.GA27486@thefrayedknot.armory.com> (raw)

im having trouble getting this command to work the way i think its
supposed to.  in the man page it says that it allows you to change
your authenticated id. So if im understanding this right, if I booted
up as user A, and need to quickly do something as user B, i can type
auth/login B, enter the password, and do things as user B from within
that namespace. However when I do this, I have no permissions anywhere,
even to /usr/B/

i guess am i just totally missing the point of that command? or is
something misconfigured?

thanks
Andrew

misc background:
my plan 9 network has an auth server, cpu server, file server and diskless
terminal. This exchange occured on the terminal.



             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-21  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-21  7:41 Andrew [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-22  3:04 okamoto
2002-11-22  2:16 okamoto
2002-11-22  2:26 ` William Josephson
2002-11-22  1:42 okamoto
2002-11-22  1:28 okamoto
2002-11-22  1:47 ` Andrew
2002-11-21 14:06 presotto
2002-10-09 20:57 presotto
2002-10-03  3:26 Kenji Arisawa

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