From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5d375e920901252139x565ce4c7ga7243cfd6680a26d@mail.gmail.com> References: <7B8C87F2-DB31-4B60-A7E8-E7B51F42B888%jp@hapra.at> <5d375e920901252139x565ce4c7ga7243cfd6680a26d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:16:46 -0600 Message-ID: From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 88869808-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Uriel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen > > Authentication isn't currently supported by any > of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). > > At least Inferno and one python 9p implementation do auth on Unix servers. > Again, Inferno can use a Plan 9 auth server, but it doesn't (to my knowledge) provide a server which can provide the Plan 9 auth service. It does provide its own auth services, but I've never attempted to use factotum to authenticate against Inferno auth, so I'm not sure how useful that would be from p9p. There was some work to provide Plan 9 Auth services under UNIX that I tried to help with (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1400101), but to my knowledge it remains incomplete. -eric