Re: [9fans] Newbie Question

["Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101@fjrhome.net>]

Thank you!


When I tried bringing it up as a cpu server with auth enabled it did 
indeed make it past the errors.

I'll see if I can work things out from there.


On 12/16/19 2:27 PM, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> i believe that this is due to running a with service=terminal.
> this causes factotum to be started as a client with no keys in it.
>
> the p9any auth protocol starts by the server presenting a set of
> keys, auth domains and protocols, which you wont have in this
> case (no keys there). which is most likely the reason the whole
> thing fails.
>
> if you boot your fileserver with service=cpu, then when factotum starts
> it will prompt you for authid and password which will be the credentials
> of the hostowner (of the fileserver) which should have to match what you
> have on the authentication server. this information can be stored in
> nvram to avoid the prompt on boot.
>
> even if it doesnt match the auth key for (that user) on the authserver,
> the fileserver should be able to boot and mount its root filesystem
> as factotum talks to itself in this scenario and having the same keys
> on both sides.
>
> its just about to fail when there are no keys at all.
>
> i hope this makes sense.
>
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> cinap
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