Thanks, I had decided to go the lazy route as you mentioned and fill factotum directly.
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9f...@sirjofri.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the original thread message, rminnich is asking for wpa2 passwords, so I > assume you need ot for connecting your laptop to a network - which is an > important point in this thread, if you need the wpa2 keys to be able to > network in the first place. > > Running auth/factotum is generally the official way to query secstore for > secrets, but secstore is a server, for which you need an existing network > connection. > > It is however possible to run factotum without connecting to the secstore > server, and fill it with your own secrets: > > auth/factotum -n > cat mysecrets | read -m > /mnt/factotum/ctl > > The read -m is needed so each secret gets its own write. Instead of catting > the file directly it is possible to encrypt it. The encrypted file needs to > be stored somewhere in physical reach (not via network), for example a thumb > drive or a local disk file. > > After running that and establishing your wifi connection, you can just fill > the existing factotum with your secstore secrets, or just run a new > auth/factotum (without -n) before starting rio, or whatever you like. > > Note that (at least on 9front systems) it is possible to specify a single > wpa2 key in the plan9.ini file, and it would be possible to put your wpa2 > keys in the boot paq file. > > sirjofri ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2e892f330bc0513b-Mc57da6b11f438a528f21b713 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
