Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Jan 25, 2009, at 8:43 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: A quick look at npfs and spfs suggests that neither support p9sk1 auth? Am I misreading? one user-level 9p server/client which supports p9sk1 is Tim's python 9P library. Which should be a relatively easy way to add a 9pserve to hg.

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread Charles Forsyth
>Even more off topic - why do people think regular password expiry improves >system security (as opposed to enforcing a password complexity constraint)? i think the UNIX security paper discussed that. (F. Grampp and R. Morris, "UNIX Operating System Security", BSTJ, Vol. 62, No . 8,. 1984)

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread Steve Simon
> ... it'd be nice if there was some way for a factotum > protocol to generate a key that stayed in long term storage (i.e. in secstore) > but currently, i don't think there's a way to do it, other > than manually. I was needing this recently - I have to change my windows filserver password every

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread Charles Forsyth
>it's a bit awkward doing inferno auth with factotum, as you >have to manually manipulate the keys generated by the login(6) >process. at the moment if you use Inferno's auth/ai2key once (for each authinfo-format file) you can add the resulting keys in text form to your secstore for later use by

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread roger peppe
it's a bit awkward doing inferno auth with factotum, as you have to manually manipulate the keys generated by the login(6) process. it'd be nice if there was some way for a factotum protocol to generate a key that stayed in long term storage (i.e. in secstore) but currently, i don't think there's a

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-26 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Uriel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen > > Authentication isn't currently supported by any > of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). > > At least Inferno and one python 9p implementation do auth on Unix servers. > Again, Inferno can

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread Uriel
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen > Authentication isn't currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). At least Inferno and one python 9p implementation do auth on Unix servers. uriel

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> A quick look at npfs and spfs suggests that neither support p9sk1 auth? Am > I misreading? one user-level 9p server/client which supports p9sk1 is Tim's python 9P library.

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:49:57AM -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > For servers there are lots of choices, but spfs/npfs are the only ones > (I know of) which support the UNIX extensions (for things like UID > mapping, etc.) A quick look at npfs and spfs suggests that neither support p9sk1 auth

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
It sounded more like he wanted a UNIX based auth server, perhaps I misread. -eric On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Steve Simon wrote: >> Authentication isn't >> currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). > > Maybe it doesn't count in your eyes, but I use u9fs to

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
> Authentication isn't > currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). Maybe it doesn't count in your eyes, but I use u9fs to serve unix filesystems to plan9 - it supports authenticiation. -Steve

Re: [9fans] p9 file server (npfs) w/ authentication from heterogenous systems

2009-01-25 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher wrote: > > I have read a post from Eric Van Hensbergen about paravirtualized > filesystems. This was of interest to me, and I tried to pull npfs from > subversion. As a client I am using the 9pfuse to mount the tree of the > npfs server. Is this a good