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From: "James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>,
	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 19:22:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPd04b4sChpfjuLfXqiPp7u6cZyvU0=9heHbds=3BYwuyzAjEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <753998c8-7595-4f6a-bb94-e45c95dd9b42@email.android.com>

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Ah, ok.  I'll try that.  Thank you!


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:05 AM 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
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-15 19:22 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 [this message]
2016-11-15 19:52       ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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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