* [9fans] Passwords on KFS file system
@ 2002-06-18 9:30 Blake McBride
2002-06-18 10:06 ` Lucio De Re
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From: Blake McBride @ 2002-06-18 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Greetings,
My Plan 9 system is stand-alone (no networking) and uses the
kfs file system. Looking at the docs I think I see how to add
a new user to my system (disk/kfscmd newuser). Is that correct?
But, no where can I find how to give glenda or a new user a
password. Thre appears to be ways of using passwords with
a network but not on a stand-alone machine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Blake McBride
blake@integra-online.com
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* Re: [9fans] Passwords on KFS file system
2002-06-18 9:30 [9fans] Passwords on KFS file system Blake McBride
@ 2002-06-18 10:06 ` Lucio De Re
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lucio De Re @ 2002-06-18 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:30:34AM +0000, Blake McBride wrote:
>
> My Plan 9 system is stand-alone (no networking) and uses the
> kfs file system. Looking at the docs I think I see how to add
> a new user to my system (disk/kfscmd newuser). Is that correct?
Yes. That presumably updates the /adm/users file and creates a home
directory.
> But, no where can I find how to give glenda or a new user a
> password. Thre appears to be ways of using passwords with
> a network but not on a stand-alone machine.
>
That makes sense, as you'd need auth services to track passwords, most
importantly, you need NVRAM to store the crypt key that protects the
password files (/adm/*key, or somesuch).
I imagine you could bend the terminal kernel to run authentication,
but you'll gain little for your efforts, there is no safeguard on a
terminal server against malicious behaviour by different users.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
Encouragement? You're way ahead of where I was after as little
exposure as you have :-)
++L
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