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Subject: Re: [9fans] floppy based standalone auth server
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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> I may be getting this wrong, but isn't it useful for connections
> from foreign hosts?  Like telnet and FTP, for example?

There's nothing magical about the name netkeys.
It's just convention that Plan 9 (password-based) keys
are stored in /mnt/keys whereas hardware-based keys
are stored in /mnt/netkeys.

When you use netkey (see passwd(1)), you are simulating
a SecureNet box but with a password, so /mnt/keys is the
relevant database.

Russ