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 <eri...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Uriel <lost.gob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen >> <eri...@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 > >
