From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum question
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:30:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a11b52543427a2ed3ec873ad5cf0cdcf@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60903101601l607fab61r700bc15d34f18e1@mail.gmail.com>
/sys/doc/auth.ps is much more interesting.
my analogy is that YOU are factotum and your assistant is the program
that you (factotum) will authenticate to the remote system to act on
your behalf.
> Factotum is some guy in the room that, even though you have the phone, you
> keep asking what to say next on the line to get authentication to happen.
>
> Is this a bad analogy?
> Factotum is available on the client side during authentication via a library
> we can use to talk to it. When we get an "afd" we basically write and read
> from it asking our local factotum what to say next?
> Is this where the proxying happens? If so I think I get it... otherwise no
> :-)
>
> Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 23:01 David Leimbach
2009-03-11 0:05 ` Russ Cox
2009-03-11 0:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2009-03-11 2:37 ` David Leimbach
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-28 10:12 Antonin Vecera
2007-09-28 10:39 ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-09-28 11:25 ` Antonin Vecera
2007-09-29 13:24 ` Antonin Vecera
2007-09-28 11:23 ` erik quanstrom
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