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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:14 +0100
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum/802.1x catch 22?
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> It was suggested to me off-list to use a shell script
> as boot program for more flexibility. in that case
> doing the auth/secstore + read  to deal with secstore
> would be trivial.

Replacing /sys/src/9/boot/boot.c and friends with a set of shell
scripts has been in my TODO for a while now, the current code is too
rigid and inflexible, and expanding it would make it too complex,
replacing it with easily customizable shell scripts would solve many
problems.

Best wishes

uriel