From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] why disabled -n option of secstore in plan9port
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 17:03:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfm+0o7ZY0fR2MLwKjH1+THmw=gsTx1xuewsQHmfVp=ZxJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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probably because it wouldn't be a secure storage. p9p is hosted on linux
or macos, and if the keys are stored in a file (or device) on the host os,
then secstore would be only as secure as the host os (e.g. sudo privilege).
readnvram (src/libauthsrv/readnvram.c) expects to find the keys in
locations that are specific to plan9 devices (e.g. '#r/nvram'). unattended
startup of secstore assumes that there is physical access control to the
machine and only the host-owner can access nvram.
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM Kyohei Kadota <lufia@lufia.org> wrote:
> Hello fans.
>
> I'm curious why secstore's -n option is disabled.
>
> https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/master/src/cmd/auth/secstore/secstore.c#L390
>
> Does someone know?
>
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