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 :-)

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> 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.


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> > 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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