Re: [9fans] Factotum

["roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:57 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>  it is not factotum's job to provide persistant storage.  that would
>  infringe upon secstore's franchise.

that said, i sometimes wish the interface between factotum and secstore
was a bit more slick, particularly when dealing with protocols (such as
inferno's auth(6)) that don't use a password directly, but instead use another
protocol (e.g. login(6)) to generate a long-term key which is the info that you
want factotum to store.

the stuff with ipso, etc, is fine when all the entries are manually generated,
but seems unnecessarily awkward when automatically generated keys are
involved.

i'd like to see a way of asking factotum "please save your keys to secstore",
although there's some difficulty getting it right, as there are
potentially many factotums
to one secstore, or even worse, several secstores.