From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <7B8C87F2-DB31-4B60-A7E8-E7B51F42B888%jp@hapra.at> <5d375e920901252139x565ce4c7ga7243cfd6680a26d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:13:23 +0000 Message-ID: From: roger peppe To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems Topicbox-Message-UUID: 88ed6e70-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 : > 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 > >