Re: [9fans]

[Stephen Wynne <stevemw@place.org>]

andrey mirtchovski wrote:

 > you won't need a secstore for your installation to work.

OK, I guess I don't need it for connecting with drawterm,
either. But apparently I need it for SSH and pulling
updates. I may also need it for other stuff. I'm running
an app that makes a call to auth_getuserpasswd() and it
fails now that I've tried to setup securestore; it used to
get past that point before.

 > check the /sys/doc/auth.ps paper (also on Bell-Labs'
 > site) secstore/factotum pair

Well, . Here's where I am now:

On my terminal via a drawterm connection (I haven't
recompiled for more GUI support yet), I'm following
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/lanlp9/tips.html
on setting up secstore.

The mkdirs were done before.  One small issue, factotum
wanted /adm/secstore/store/bootes/factotum/ (I think it
was).

 > on auth server:
 >
 >     auth/secstored
 >     mkdir /adm/secstore
 >     mkdir /adm/secstore/store
 >     mkdir /adm/secstore/who
 >     auth/secuser dpx
 >
 > on terminal:
 >
 >     touch /tmp/factotum
 >     auth/secstore -p /tmp/factotum
 >       ramfs -p; cd /tmp
 >     auth/secstore -g factotum
 >     secstore password:
 >     echo 'key proto=apop dom=x.com user=dpx \
 >             !password=y~1' >> factotum
 >     auth/secstore -p factotum
 >     secstore password:
 >     cat factotum > /mnt/factotum/ctl

This is where I'm still stuck.

 > you'll need to have both auth/secstored and
 > auth/factotum started.

I do, but there must be something else wrong. I found one
thing: my lib/ndb/local file still had localhost and
127.0.0.1 as the sys'name from my initial fumbling around
to get it online.

Now I get to the ramfs stage! However, secstore -g complains
about /tmp/factotum not existing. If I skip the
ramfs step, I see this:

    cpu% auth/secstore -g factotum
    secstore password:
    secstore
    implausible filesize for factotum
    secstore cmd failed

On the console of the PC, I see "implausible filesize -1
for factotum," but no information about which file is too
small.

This is what I have in /mnt/factotum:

    cpu% pwd
    /mnt/factotum
    cpu% cat ctl
    key proto=p9sk1 user=bootes dom=9net !hex? !password?
    cpu% ls -l
    -lrw------- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 confirm
    --rw-r--r-- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 ctl
    -lr-------- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 log
    -lrw------- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 needkey
    --r--r--r-- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 proto
    --rw-rw-rw- M 48 bootes bootes 0 Jul  4 23:46 rpc

 > it's like riding a bycicle -- once you do it you'll
 > always know how it's done :)

I'm still trying to bolt on my training wheels, I think.
But thanks for your patience!