Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

>it's a bit awkward doing inferno auth with factotum, as you
>have to manually manipulate the keys generated by the login(6)
>process.

at the moment if you use Inferno's auth/ai2key once (for each authinfo-format file)
you can add the resulting keys in text form to your secstore for later use by factotum
(with the inferno auth additions).  alternatively, you can add them
each time via ctl.  there isn't any way at the moment to add them on demand
(eg, through feedkey or similar), unlike passwords.

the factotum implementations need further changes to handle public key systems better,
assuming there is more than one system in use.  (eg, the keys are independent
from the authentication scheme that uses them.)