From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <44B54351.2000507@lanl.gov>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:45:37 -0600
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501)
MIME-Version: 1.0
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?
References: <1152644301.12989.35.camel@linux.site>	<cf7d8363d36d333e810c7b51bcdfefc7@mail.gmx.net>	<6e35c0620607112049y49fd2963kb61f6f57c74c03a9@mail.gmail.com>	<8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com>
	<op.tck4n9g8d84skq@fiore.malebolge>
In-Reply-To: <op.tck4n9g8d84skq@fiore.malebolge>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc:
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7d64c3bc-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

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