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From: Andrew <afrayedknot@thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] auth/login
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:41:45 -0800
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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.