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Subject: Re: [9fans] authenticating local server
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:25:34 -0500
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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since nobody well qualified has answered this, i'll go out on a limb
and answer at the risk of unleashing somebody's wrath :)

the question is confusing to me and  i'm guessing at what you are trying
to do.  you could authenticate the user,  launch a httpd for
that user and redirect the user to it.  I believe this is how pegasus
works.  then your fs on /srv could require authentication.


> Hi,
>
> I have a file server which posts a file descriptor in /srv
> the idea is that this will be run from cpurc so httpd can
> mount it.
>
> In my naive implementation the server runs as bootes so it
> has different access to files to the httpd which normally runs
> as none.
>
> I can just call becomenone() in the start of the server but is
> there a better (but not too complex) way to do this using the
> username presented to attach so my server gets the apropriate
> permissions no matter who mounts it.
>
> -Steve