From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum question
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:37:57 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> /sys/doc/auth.ps is much more interesting.
Sure, I was reading plan 9 papers in general today... that's likely a good
read :-)
>
>
> my analogy is that YOU are factotum and your assistant is the program
> that you (factotum) will authenticate to the remote system to act on
> your behalf.
Interesting.
>
>
> > Factotum is some guy in the room that, even though you have the phone,
> you
> > keep asking what to say next on the line to get authentication to happen.
> >
> > Is this a bad analogy?
> > Factotum is available on the client side during authentication via a
> library
> > we can use to talk to it. When we get an "afd" we basically write and
> read
> > from it asking our local factotum what to say next?
> > Is this where the proxying happens? If so I think I get it... otherwise
> no
> > :-)
> >
> > Dave
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 23:01 David Leimbach
2009-03-11 0:05 ` Russ Cox
2009-03-11 0:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-03-11 2:37 ` David Leimbach [this message]
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2007-09-28 10:12 Antonin Vecera
2007-09-28 10:39 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-09-28 11:25 ` Antonin Vecera
2007-09-29 13:24 ` Antonin Vecera
2007-09-28 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
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