From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pnp factotum from linux to plan 9: site-specific password failures.
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:14:46 -0400
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> I can't get into bell-labs.com if p9p factotum is running. Kill
> factotum, I can get in. On the failure case, I get the continually
> repeated password prompt. I have this problem with some, but not all,
> cpu servers.
>
> Kill p9p factotum, all is well.

If instead of killing p9p factotum, you run

	echo delkey | 9p write factotum/ctl

does that clear up the problem? I wonder if perhaps
factotum has a bad key and is not overriding it when
you type the correct password.

> What's a sensible way to debug this?

After a few iterations of the repeated password prompt,
it would be nice to know what

	9p read factotum/ctl

prints, specifically whether there are multiple keys for
the auth domain that you are trying to get into.

Russ