Re: [9fans] newaccount.html has gone missing

[Frank Gleason <frankg@fgleason.com>]

I found it while trying to figure out why pull was driving my crazy.  
The 'Staying up to Date' page
needs some updating.


On Feb 19, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Russ Cox wrote:

>> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/newaccount.html
>> 'The object plan9/newaccount.html does not exist on this server.'
>
> where did you find this link?  i thought i removed
> all the ones on the bell-labs site.  as i mentioned in
> the email to 9fans about the new web site, accounts
> are no longer needed, so the account-creation
> mechanisms are turned off.
>
>> The problem is that that somewhat breaks patch(1), it still
>> works but spills a bunch of errors because it can't chmod
>> any files, and it shows up as created by none.
>
> then please submit a patch for patch.  patches need to be
> possible to create as none.
>
>>> you need to run 9fs sources; mount /srv/sources /n/sources
>> Question is, should we change patch(1) to do that?
>
> definitely not.  patches need to be possible to create as none.
> i think people with sources accounts should just change their
> /rc/bin/9fs scripts.  it's a good exercise.
>
>> I'll confess that I still use an authenticating mount for sources.
>> It does seem that sources accounts still serve a purpose, so perhaps
>> they ought to be optionally available.
>
> the auto-account-creator was a clumsy hack that was
> difficult to maintain.  we were only using accounts as
> proof-of-clickthrough.  now that the clickthrough is gone,
> the need for accounts is gone too.
>
> we'll still create accounts as necessary for people who
> need to write to sources (e.g., in contrib or other places).
> frequent patch submitters are welcome to ask too.
>
> russ