Re: [9fans] factotum & invalid entries

[arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp]

> Hm. You can't inspect the password at that point (sometimes I wish
> there was a way to do that) so just the username is pertinent.
> Wouldn't a log entry be more useful and less intrusive?
>

I believe factotum does not keep clear password if proto=p9sk1
Then log entry will be useless even if the log shows the key.
If authentication failed and attribute value list is right except
password,
then we should retry with a new password.

Current factotum is inconvenient if the order is matter.
I think my proposal is one of idea to resolve the problem.
Of course if we failed in authentication, then disabled flag will be put
automatically at the beginning of the attribute value list, and if we
succeed
in next authentication the attribute value list is automatically
replaced by new
one without changing the order.

Kenji Arisawa