> As part of a PAM module implementation in Linux I need to authenticate > against p9p's factotum. The code basically does an > "auth_userpasswd(user, passwd)" to achieve this. Apparently I get a > response from the factotum saying that it does not understand p9cr.
P9cr doesn't establish a shared key between the two sides, nor does it allow the client to authenticate the server. Much better would be for the client to have a factotum that can be given the password and run p9sk1 on the client's behalf. > I was wondering if p9cr is supported in p9p's factotum. Not really, no. I made it work just now, but it's not really something you want to be using all the time. The same is true of auth_userpasswd. Russ
