I do what you describe on several macs; it works fine. I haven't updated in a while, but what your describing is my understanding of the standard way to use p9any auth with u9fs. I use a special user created for this purpose as well.
On Jul 4, 2011, at 4:53, "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > This is probably my finger trouble but just in > case I am not going mad and sothing has changed > in the last couple of months... > > I have a mac running u9fs (marlin). > > I don't like the idea of putting bootes password in /etc on the > mac so I give it its own host owner and secret > > $ cat /etc/u9fs.conf > random-secret > mac-owner > home.quintile.net > > then I have a factotum key of the form: > > hugo% grep mac-owner /mnt/factotum/ctl > key proto=p9sk1 dom=home.quintile.net user=mac-owner !password? > > I am pretty sure this has worked for several years but now it is broken: > > hugo% srv -m marlin > post... > srv net!marlin!9fs: mount failed: authentication failed > > This should work shouldn't it? > > Is there another way to do this? I tried adding another > clause to my secstore with a server=marlin tuple hoping that this > would be chosen in preference to my default p9sk1 key but it didn't > seem to work either. > > how do peple do this? Are you all happy to sprinkle bootes > key onto unix machines (hard to believe)? > > -Steve
