Re: [9fans] cpu/auth/file servers

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Do I need to run the terminal as user None (and specify that as the
> default in plan9.ini) so that the 'real' user can log on to the cpu
> server with their credentials after rio has started?

log into a terminal as yourself.  this way you are yourself on the file
server, and have expanded permissions.  the old arguments from unix apply.

> I see how it would work where the terminal has some local resources
> that are useful (including where you use drawterm from another OS) -
> log onto the local terminal then log on to the cpu - but in the PXE
> boot case the terminal isn't supposed to have any local storage or
> even much processing power.

my terminal is often much faster than the cpu server.  here the old arguments
from the plan 9 papers do not apply.  (well they do in some big environments,
but that's a different story.)  the main resource your terminal needs is a kbd and
mouse.

- erik