From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:40:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101115174031.GH21298@gradx.cs.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <081ad47d62311a4a160875fc8bc9247f@coraid.com>
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:22:52AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > How do you map it to a local identity?
> >
> > There's less need to, since most rights checks would be done using the key
> > directly, but eve's factotum also probably has a SPKI key, and your identity
> > can be stringified into a path of names if necessary.
>
> in that case, what do you do with the username? do you have
> to change username if you rekey?
Hm; I wasn't thinking about rekeying.
You're free to use the path from eve's factotum, which may go via a local
naming authority, if you like. Then the authority simply changes its view
of names in response to your rekeying and everything stays the same.
--nwf;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-15 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 21:13 erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 3:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 17:41 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-09 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 0:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 1:49 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-10 6:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 14:31 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 3:35 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 5:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 5:46 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:03 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:19 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 6:25 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 9:07 ` EBo
2010-11-12 15:12 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-12 15:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 15:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 15:55 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 16:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 19:55 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 20:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 20:31 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:37 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 20:30 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:41 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:15 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 22:20 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:36 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-13 8:31 ` tlaronde
2010-11-13 23:42 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-11-14 22:49 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-11-15 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 17:40 ` Nathaniel W Filardo [this message]
2010-11-15 17:50 ` John Floren
2010-11-12 21:12 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-09 18:08 ` yy
2010-11-09 19:17 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-09 19:27 ` Russ Cox
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