> Now, the rest of the network also needs much > of the same info as the auth server, in order to > easily call each computer by sysname, etc.. > This means that when a new node is added to > the Plan 9 network, changes will be needed > to be made in two places: the main network's > /lib/ndb/local and the auth server's /lib/ndb/local. > What's a better way to achieve this? Is there > some method by which the auth server can share > its ndb file(s) with the network? Or should it also > rely on the file server for the root filesystem, and > use local disks only for keyfs, secstore, etc. > databases?
since the keyfs and secstore databases are encrypted on disk, i just boot the auth server from the fs and leave the secstore and keyfs databases on the fs. perhaps i'm being a bit blithe, but i don't see any obvious problems with that. - erik
