term% cd /tmp term% dd -bs 512 -count 1 < /dev/zero > nvram 1+0 records in 1+0 records out term% nvram=nvram term% xd nvram 0000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
etc. term% auth/wrkey bad nvram key bad authentication id bad authentication domain authid: xyz authdom: abc secstore key: password: term% cat nvram 1��@�123�xyztabc/term% xd nvram 0000000 31d90c00 028140e2 00000000 00000000 0000010 31323300 00000000 00000000 00009f78 0000020 797a0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000030 00000000 00000000 00000074 61626300 0000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 etc. It pays to make the nvram file len 512 bytes or you have to set nvramlen in plan9.ini and who wants to do that. Note the nvram=nvram step ... it is needed. ron p.s. No points for guessing the password I used :-)