I'm integrating the start of a user-space 802.1x supplicant daemon in the boot sequence. Ideally, this deamon should be started after ip has been set up and before ipconfig is run.
so, I placed it in bootip.c:/^configip between binding in of the ip interface and starting ipconfig. I'm only starting it if the program is present in /boot and a special env var is set in plan9.ini. however, the supplicant needs some information (details depend on the chosen auth method, in our case it is username/password, if other auth methods are chosen (no code yet) e.g. certificates may be involved); I was thinking that it would be nice to let factotum as these for us, but that means that factotum must be started before before the supplicant, and thus before the network is up, so it can't reach secstore... what would be a good approach here? would there be a way (would this be the way? :-) to get the optional start of the supplicant into the distribution? Axel.
