From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole.hjalmar.kristensen@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maintenance of an auth server files vs a dns+dhcp+tftp server
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:52:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHqDL__e6BCxfExv9FqnPU82Ow8Oa9q5nVgBPi-No2CpECBVYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <753998c8-7595-4f6a-bb94-e45c95dd9b42@email.android.com>
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org> wrote:
> "James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >So in a canonical installation the auth server mounts its root from the
> >file server?
> >
> >On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:47 AM Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The idea is that there is one file system shared by all the
> >neighboring
> >> systems. The canonical Plan 9 installation comprises one disk file
> >server
> >> and many diskless computing machines (auth servers, cpu servers,
> >terminals).
> >>
>
> Yes. You can arrange for hands-free booting by storing the same
> authid/authdom/password in the nvram of both the file server and the auth
> server. I usually boot the auth server from a 9fat partition or a USB key,
> then tcp (actually, tls) mount the root file system from the file server.
>
> sl
>
>
Is this the reason that it is actually possible to boot a combined
auth/cpu/file server at all? I mean, the auth server stores /adm/keys on
the file server, right? And normally you would need to authenticate
yourself to attach to the file server, which would be kind of difficult,
since it is the auth server that is trying to access the key file...
Ole-Hj.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-15 17:00 James A. Robinson
2016-11-15 17:10 ` Steve Simon
2016-11-16 0:21 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-11-16 0:24 ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-15 18:47 ` Stanley Lieber
2016-11-15 18:53 ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-15 19:05 ` Stanley Lieber
2016-11-15 19:22 ` James A. Robinson
2016-11-15 19:52 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2016-11-15 20:06 ` Stanley Lieber
2016-11-15 20:12 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-11-16 13:21 ` Anthony Sorace
2016-11-16 15:31 ` Stanley Lieber
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