On 9/2/18, Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Regarding authentication and access control, I think the only *standard* > option for a mixed OS environment (Plan 9, Linux/*BSD, Windows) is > Kerberos. > Is that still actively used (I mean, outside of Microsoft's attempted hi-jacking)? In my Linux-prone wider environment, the name is never uttered.
> It would be great if factotum could handle Kerberos 5. There is a pure Go > package (https://github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5) that could help. Of course, > this would take some work. > Factotum deserves a research institute of its own. Every time I have to change a password that has expired or have to look in my secstore for one I have not used in a while, I wish I could add the few modules I find lacking in factotum. So much Plan 9 that comes just short of perfect, where everything else is at best mediocre! Lucio.
