Re: [9fans] [go-nuts] Re: 9p protocol go implementation

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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where would PostMountSrv reside? it isn't a syscall.

it is not difficult to do by hand; this version of go9p's timefs example
posts itself to /srv (plus some code to fake a few unix'isms on Plan
9). there is no authentication; permissions on the /srv file determine if a
user can mount it:

https://github.com/9nut/plan9/tree/master/go9p_timefs

a package that wraps the factotum-to-app rpc protocol (like libauth) would
be useful.

-Skip

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:04 PM, <newton688@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I think I'll have to do a bit more reading to understand this.
> I'll check out ramfs and 9pcon.
>
> Is this simpler if written in C using "postmountsrv" with a mount point?
> I'm assuming that it doesn't require a tcp port and explicit authentication
> handling using libauth on both ends.
>
> If so, then I wonder why postmountsrv is not exposed via the Go 9P
> libraries?
>
> Chris
>
> On Monday, November 3, 2014 4:29:10 AM UTC-5, Skip wrote:
>>
>> short version: you need libauth in Go (or start the go9p client/server by
>> C programs that do the auth).
>>
>> 9P facilitates authentication (but doesn't define or dictate the method).
>> intro(5), auth(2) and factotum(4) will be helpful. basically Tauth is used
>> to request a fid to negotiate authentication (a.k.a. afid).
>> Tread's/Twrite's to afid are proxy-delivered to the factotums
>> (authentication agents) of the sever and of the client by each side. once
>> server's factotum is convinced, the server is granted the system privilege
>> to change its process id to the authenticated user.  the client attaches
>> (Tattach) to the server's namespace by providing the afid in addition to
>> other parameters. tools like 'ramfs  -D' and aux/9pcon are very handy for
>> watching 9P in action.
>>
>> i'm copying to 9fans; it might be a better place to continue.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:27 PM, <newt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see that go9p supports authentication. Assuming the client and server
>>> are both plan9 (even the same system), how does one hook up the OS's
>>> authentication?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, March 21, 2011 10:16:16 PM UTC-4, peterGo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Mauricio,
>>>>
>>>> go9p - Package to write 9P clients and servers in Go
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/go9p/
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 21, 9:57 pm, Maurício CA <mauricio.antu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hi, all,
>>>> >
>>>> > I see at page below that there exists go9p, "A 9P library in the Go
>>>> > programming language, by Andrey Mirtchovski and Latchesar
>>>> > Ionkov. Now part of the official Go distribution."
>>>> >
>>>> >    http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations
>>>> >
>>>> > I can't find any implementation of 9p at this page, though, which, I
>>>> > believe, is the official list of current standard go packages:
>>>> >
>>>> >    http://golang.org/pkg
>>>> >
>>>> > Is there really a 9p implementation in the official go distribution?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> >
>>>> > Maurício
>>>
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