From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3e1162e60903101601l607fab61r700bc15d34f18e1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:37:57 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60903101937k6019a3fayf909b9743dd5e4b4@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd2e12c6074ea0464cec1b3 Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum question Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8da648a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd2e12c6074ea0464cec1b3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > --000e0cd2e12c6074ea0464cec1b3 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Skip Ta= vakkolian <9nut@9n= etics.com> wrote:
/sys/doc/auth.ps is much m= ore interesting.

Sure, I was reading plan 9= papers in general today... that's likely a good read :-)=A0


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.
=A0


> 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 happ= en.
>
> Is this a bad analogy?
> Factotum is available on the client side during authentication via a l= ibrary
> we can use to talk to it. =A0When we get an "afd" we basical= ly write and read
> from it asking our local factotum what to say next?
> Is this where the proxying happens? =A0If so I think I get it... other= wise no
> :-)
>
> Dave



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