On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Martín Ferrari
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:55, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Sounds like you understand quite well really, I think you
>> are further up the learning curve than you think.
>
> Well, it seems that I wasn't so
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:55, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like you understand quite well really, I think you
> are further up the learning curve than you think.
Well, it seems that I wasn't so far away, now I'm happily running a
cpu/auth/file server and many disk-less termina
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On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
(i think venti is optional but i might be wrong.)
Yes, it's optional.
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> aha, I didn't understand what "bootes" was for. In any case, when I
> first booted the cpu/auth server, I was asked for authid (is this the
> same as the hostid you mention?), authdom (I don't get to what this
> domain applies, incoming requests to the auth server?) secstore key
> (dunno) and pas
>From the docs, isn't it supposed to be unusable from the console? Or this
>is just a relic and now any system can be a file server?
that's a different, older implementation of file service, using its own kernel;
it's described by fs(4).
it is still separately available and maintained, but the .i
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:22, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The system hangs together through an auth system which is distantly related
> to kerberos.
>
> the file servers and auth servers share a host ID and password, by convention
> the name
aha, I didn't understand what "bootes" w
The system hangs together through an auth system which is distantly related to
kerberos.
the file servers and auth servers share a host ID and password, by convention
the name
is "bootes". the username and password is stored in a tiny partition on the
disk (nvram partition).
this allows them to
Hi,
I guess that this must be a FAQ; but I've already spent days googling,
reading docs, man pages, etc. and I'm still lost.
Short background: I'm an experienced (11y) Linux sysadmin, but this is
the first time I try to delve into Plan9. I want to play with it and
to explore it's possibilities in
