From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Lucio De Re Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 20:09:55 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P or better file services for multiple platforms Topicbox-Message-UUID: e05b5410-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 9/2/18, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > Regarding authentication and access control, I think the only *standard* > option for a mixed OS environment (Plan 9, Linux/*BSD, Windows) is > Kerberos. > Is that still actively used (I mean, outside of Microsoft's attempted hi-jacking)? In my Linux-prone wider environment, the name is never uttered. > It would be great if factotum could handle Kerberos 5. There is a pure Go > package (https://github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5) that could help. Of course, > this would take some work. > Factotum deserves a research institute of its own. Every time I have to change a password that has expired or have to look in my secstore for one I have not used in a while, I wish I could add the few modules I find lacking in factotum. So much Plan 9 that comes just short of perfect, where everything else is at best mediocre! Lucio.