Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

[roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

it's a bit awkward doing inferno auth with factotum, as you
have to manually manipulate the keys generated by the login(6)
process. it'd be nice if there was some way for a factotum
protocol to generate a key that stayed in long term storage (i.e. in secstore)
but currently, i don't think there's a way to do it, other
than manually.

2009/1/26 Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Uriel <lost.goblin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen
>> <ericvh@gmail.com> > 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
>
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