From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] security model
References: <7983861cdde9b44cc37bc593de3237da@coraid.com>
Date: Thu,  1 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")
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erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> 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