Re: Newbie Question

"Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:40:24 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you!


When I tried bringing it up as a cpu server with auth enabled it did 
indeed make it past the errors.

I'll see if I can work things out from there.


On 12/16/19 2:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> i believe that this is due to running a with service=terminal.
> this causes factotum to be started as a client with no keys in it.
> 
> the p9any auth protocol starts by the server presenting a set of
> keys, auth domains and protocols, which you wont have in this
> case (no keys there). which is most likely the reason the whole
> thing fails.
> 
> if you boot your fileserver with service=cpu, then when factotum starts
> it will prompt you for authid and password which will be the credentials
> of the hostowner (of the fileserver) which should have to match what you
> have on the authentication server. this information can be stored in
> nvram to avoid the prompt on boot.
> 
> even if it doesnt match the auth key for (that user) on the authserver,
> the fileserver should be able to boot and mount its root filesystem
> as factotum talks to itself in this scenario and having the same keys
> on both sides.
> 
> its just about to fail when there are no keys at all.
> 
> i hope this makes sense.
> 
> --
> cinap
> 

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