Re: [9fans] auth change? / auth for u9fs on a mac

[Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>]

I do what you describe on several macs; it works fine. I haven't updated in a while, but what your describing is my understanding of the standard way to use p9any auth with u9fs. I use a special user created for this purpose as well.

On Jul 4, 2011, at 4:53, "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> This is probably my finger trouble but just in
> case I am not going mad and sothing has changed
> in the last couple of months...
> 
> I have a mac running u9fs (marlin).
> 
> I don't like the idea of putting bootes password in /etc on the
> mac so I give it its own host owner and secret
> 
>    $ cat /etc/u9fs.conf
>        random-secret
>        mac-owner
>        home.quintile.net
> 
> then I have a factotum key of the form:
> 
>    hugo% grep mac-owner /mnt/factotum/ctl
>        key proto=p9sk1 dom=home.quintile.net user=mac-owner !password?
> 
> I am pretty sure this has worked for several years but now it is broken:
> 
>    hugo% srv -m marlin
>    post...
>    srv net!marlin!9fs: mount failed: authentication failed
> 
> This should work shouldn't it?
> 
> Is there another way to do this? I tried adding another
> clause to my secstore with a server=marlin tuple hoping that this
> would be chosen in preference to my default p9sk1 key but it didn't
> seem to work either.
> 
> how do peple do this? Are you all happy to sprinkle bootes
> key onto unix machines (hard to believe)?
> 
> -Steve