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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] newaccount.html has gone missing
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:50:29 +0100
From: uriel@cat-v.org
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> Russ says that accounts are not needed any more to connect to sources
> (and thus to pull) and the current /bin/9fs seems to support that
> claim:
> 
> case sources
> 	srv -q tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com sources
> 	mount -n /srv/sources /n/sources
> 
> mount -n skips authentication entirely.

The problem is that that somewhat breaks patch(1), it still
works but spills a bunch of errors because it can't chmod 
any files, and it shows up as created by none.

Also if you have a sources/contrib account you need to modify
your local 9fs to remove the -n.

Maybe we should add a sourcesauth entry to 9fs? 

uriel