From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: csant <csant@csant.info>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:45:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B54351.2000507@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.tck4n9g8d84skq@fiore.malebolge>
csant wrote:
>> Just to clarify. The book is about using the system, not about internals.
>
> Then (if not too silly a problem) my n00b issue (that I actually still
> haven't completely worked out):
>
> What mostly confuses me is how authentication works in Plan 9.
>
> It seems quite straightforward to grasp its concepts, but obviously I
> am missing something about the different roles needed in the
> authentication process: the concrete problem being that I am trying to
> set up a standalone desktop machine with authentication, and I get
> confused about how to pack all different roles into one machine.
yep, this is it for me. I'm always screwing it up.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-12 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 18:52 Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-11 18:55 ` Rob Pike
2006-07-11 19:03 ` jmk
2006-07-11 18:58 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2006-07-11 20:18 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-11 20:29 ` Corey
2006-07-11 20:40 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-12 3:49 ` Jack Johnson
2006-07-12 11:09 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-12 14:40 ` Richard Bilson
2006-07-12 16:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-12 16:41 ` csant
2006-07-12 18:45 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-07-13 4:14 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-13 5:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-11 21:50 ` David Leimbach
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