Re: [9fans] secstore in p9p, how to use well

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

so nobody uses secstored+factotum+ssh-agent on linux
with p9p like I do?

Thanks!
Ruda

On 19 December 2013 17:22, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> already for some time I've been using secstored+factotum+ssh-agent
> on linux with p9p. The machine, call it 1, runs basically all the time and
> let's presume I am logged on it all the time, too.
> The problem/inconvenience I've had is when I connect to this machine
> via ssh and want to use the system to connect to yet another machine,
> call it 2.
> The best would be if all worked transparently and as soon as I manage
> to log in to machine 1 I could easily proceed an use the running
> ssh-agent to get me to machine 2. However, I don't know how to set this
> up.
>
> So far I have, among other things, this in my .profile.
> ----------
> secstore=localhost export secstore
> NAMESPACE=/tmp/ns.ruda.0 export NAMESPACE
> if [ ! -d "$NAMESPACE" ]; then
>     mkdir $NAMESPACE
> fi
> auth=localhost export auth
> secstored
> factotum
> eval `9 ssh-agent -e`
> -----------
>
>
> This ends with the following when I connect:
> ------------------
> secstored: tcp!*!5356: Address already in use
>
> secstore password:
> 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.0/factotum: Address already in use
> factotum: post9pservice factotum: 9pserve failed
> ssh-agent: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.0/ssh-agent.socket: Address already in use
> ------------------
>
> which is not unexpected, however, whatever I tried didn't get me to
> the desired effect.
>
> Can you suggest what I should do?
>
> Thank you!
> Ruda Sykora