Re: [9fans] Authentication questions

[Christian Kellermann <Christian.Kellermann@nefkom.net>]

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* Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@bellsouth.net> [080505 20:50]:
> Once again, I find myself in the unhappy, but familiar,
> place of being befuddled by security/authentication.
> Backstory: After fighting with flaky disk drives and
> scary RAID controllers, I have a system set up as a
> CPU server running fossil+venti, and I want to play
> around with it acting as a file server in a mixed
> environment.  I've got authentication set up enough
> so that I can drawterm in.  But:
> 
> If /bin/service/tcp564 has exec /bin/exportfs -s
>    On the cpu server: 9fs tcp!127.1 works as if
>      I am none--can't write.
>    Using P9P: 9 srv -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx test
>      reports rx: exportfs: authentication not required
>      and upon mounting it behaves as if I'm none
> 
> If /bin/service/tcp564 has exec /bin/exportfs -s -a
>    On the cpu server: 9fs tcp!127.1 reports:
>       srv tcp!127.1: mount failed: EOF receiving fversion reply
>    Using P9P: 9 srv -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx test
>       reports: srv: Tversion: bad length in 9P2000 message header
> 
> Factotum is running in both cases.  What am I doing
> wrong?  I'm trying to mount the server's file system
> and authenticate in.  I must be missing something
> fundamental.

You did set up a user in fossil with fossilcons(8) right?

Kind regards,

Christian

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