From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] p9cr support in p9p's factotum? From: "Russ Cox" Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:16:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20070914011701.902531E8C47@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bee30ffa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > As part of a PAM module implementation in Linux I need to authenticate > against p9p's factotum. The code basically does an > "auth_userpasswd(user, passwd)" to achieve this. Apparently I get a > response from the factotum saying that it does not understand p9cr. P9cr doesn't establish a shared key between the two sides, nor does it allow the client to authenticate the server. Much better would be for the client to have a factotum that can be given the password and run p9sk1 on the client's behalf. > I was wondering if p9cr is supported in p9p's factotum. Not really, no. I made it work just now, but it's not really something you want to be using all the time. The same is true of auth_userpasswd. Russ