From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:41:59 +0200 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Which thing was harder for u to grasp relating Plan 9? From: csant Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1152644301.12989.35.camel@linux.site> <6e35c0620607112049y49fd2963kb61f6f57c74c03a9@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40607120409oa207237x1e944b906a9b3348@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (Linux) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7d60332e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Just to clarify. The book is about using the system, not about internals. Then (if not too silly a problem) my n00b issue (that I actually still haven't completely worked out): What mostly confuses me is how authentication works in Plan 9. It seems quite straightforward to grasp its concepts, but obviously I am missing something about the different roles needed in the authentication process: the concrete problem being that I am trying to set up a standalone desktop machine with authentication, and I get confused about how to pack all different roles into one machine. /c