From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <70c348c9a9f24a2bb44903f886defd64@vitanuova.com> From: C H Forsyth Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 22:57:12 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] security model In-Reply-To: <878xfh4ibl.fsf@jorgito.magma.intern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-uwcqltbdmkdzilfvwntutlhepy" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0b947420-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-uwcqltbdmkdzilfvwntutlhepy Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit it times out, reasonably quickly on the systems i've used. it then falls back to talking directly to an auth server. --upas-uwcqltbdmkdzilfvwntutlhepy Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by doppio; Thu Feb 1 22:39:20 GMT 2007 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 73AB011469 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:39:08 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7FAE011199 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:38:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08584-01-78 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:37:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from bree.jbk-net.com (static.88-198-45-148.clients.your-server.de [88.198.45.148]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id E16CB111A4 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:37:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 31693 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 22:40:48 -0000 Received: from cm56-175-18.liwest.at (HELO jorgito.magma.intern) (86.56.175.18) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 22:40:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 5634 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Feb 2007 22:35:42 -0000 From: Georg Lehner To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] security model Organization: MagmaSoft References: <7983861cdde9b44cc37bc593de3237da@coraid.com> Mail-Followup-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:35:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <7983861cdde9b44cc37bc593de3237da@coraid.com> (erik quanstrom's message of "Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:52:51 -0500") Message-ID: <878xfh4ibl.fsf@jorgito.magma.intern> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=vitanuova.com@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=vitanuova.com@cse.psu.edu erik quanstrom writes: > i'll take a stab at this. > > On Thu Feb 1 08:34:58 EST 2007, schors@gmail.com wrote: ... >> First I don't undestand why I must run auth/secstored on my auth >> server.=20 > > it is not required. secstore provides secure storage for users. also you > don't need to run secstore on the auth server, but for most people > that's where it makes sense. ... drawterm (on linux, at least) always tries to contact secstore on the authserver during startup. So it may not be *required* to run secstore there, but I guess doing otherwise is not feasible. Regards, Jorge-Le=F3n --upas-uwcqltbdmkdzilfvwntutlhepy--