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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sat,  3 May 2008 21:45:26 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Factotum
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On May 3, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Russ Cox wrote:

>>> 	  Fac*to"tum (f=C4=83k*t=C5=8D"t=C5=ADm), n.; pl. Factotums (- =
t=C5=ADmz). [L., do
>>> 	everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See =
/Fact/,
>>> 	and /Total/.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or =20
>>> business.
>>> 	B. Jonson.
>
>> And that definition relates to the factotum system how?
>
> In the original usage, a factotum meant a servant who acted on
> his master's behalf, taking care of all kinds of business.
>
> Plan 9's factotum acts on your behalf, taking care of all kinds
> of authentications.  It's the single do-all authentication agent,
> instead of having a separate SSH agent, SSL agent, Kerberos agent,
> and so on.
>
> Russ
>
>
I just wish it didn't have a bleak memory. Is there a way to force it =20=

to remember passwords for ftpfs?