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From: "Micah Stetson" <micah@stetsonnet.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mount followed by srvfs needs a sleep?
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:10:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3b4f6f30810201610k1a3ca1b1i4cfbb27894fbeeac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00810200548y4a4cb201k9c000bad7f079ea@mail.gmail.com>

>         local mount /srv/penelopa $home/shared/penelopa
>         #sleep 1  # --- see the text bellow; this pertains to my main
> question
>         local srvfs CALC $home/shared/penelopa/home/ruda/CPA-CALC  #****
>         local mount /srv/CALC $home/shared/CALC

I haven't actually tried this, so I probably shouldn't be writing it,
but....  How about this:

local 'rc -c ''mount blah blah && srvfs blah blah && mount blah blah'''

> login&password. Only then I execute my 'local mount ...' command. If I
> executed this right away (without mount & unmount) I would end in a
> situation when the plumber shell needs to talk to me. But this shell writes
> to the /dev/kprint...
> What is the better way?

I think this is the problem auth/fgui is supposed to solve.  See factotum(4).

> (and, actually, is this kind of authentication any safe?)

In what way?  Have you read /sys/doc/auth.ps?

Micah



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-20 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20 12:48 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 13:05 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-20 14:43   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 15:24     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-20 16:06       ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-20 23:10 ` Micah Stetson [this message]
2008-10-21  8:26   ` Rudolf Sykora

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