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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:04:47 +0800
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Subject: [9fans] terminal level authentication
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I recently put together a small plan 9 network.

I noticed that just about anyone can access the terminal,
because it does not ask for authentication when I log in.
It will only ask for my password when access the cpu server
or import from the servers.

I am not sure if it was a mistake on my part that I might
have overlooked a step. If so can you pls tell me which steps?

Assuming I did not make a mistake during the installation.
If a user decided to make use of the terminals disks
to store data, what protects these data from other users? Ofcourse
this would be irrelevant if the terminals where made of diskless
machines which relies on the fileserver to provide the disk space.

As I understand it, Just installing the distro form the bell labs site.
The reulting machine is a standalone terminal.

If I decide to follow the configuring the cpu server in the wiki,
this will give me a cpu server.

 ,Fernan