From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:30:22 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <51caa48c02414df77865eb534a616e26@lilly.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <923417acad7f83a6fa59e2f8d4858093@lilly.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu/auth/file servers Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2db0b7e2-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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