Re: [9front] Two file servers sharing an auth server

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Nathan Zimmen-Myers <nathan@nzm.ca>:
> As ori mentioned in IRC, keyfs is used to maintain the authentication
> database which can be queried remotely (I believe? this might not be a
> correct interpretation), is it correct to simply mount keyfs on web1
> from fs1?

No; I thought you wanted to move or replicate the users between the
auth servers.

> The other option which comes to mind, is to boot web1 from fs1, and
> use web1's disk for documents to be connected to httpd, which may make
> long-term maintenance easier. Would this be a more common
> configuration?

Just give them the same auth server:

sys=foo ether=aabbccddeeff ip=1.2.3.4
	auth=1.2.3.4

sys=bar ether=aabbccddeeff ip=2.4.6.8
	auth=1.2.3.4

even better if you can share an fs, and
therefore share the ndb, but you don't
need to; just point at the auth server
you want to use.

you don't even need to *own* that auth
server, though you'll need the owner of
the auth server to add a speaksfor line
if your hostowner is different.