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

2009-01-26 Thread lucio
It does p9sk1, but it consults a plain text file rather than a factotum for its key. Now I'm really surprised. I guess I never actually looked. ++L

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 lost.gob...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com 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

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
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

2009-01-26 Thread erik quanstrom
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)

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

2009-01-25 Thread Jakob Praher
Dear all, 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 match, or should I use something from the npfs

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 j...@hapra.at 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

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
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 st...@quintile.net wrote: Authentication isn't currently supported by any of the UNIX servers (to my knowledge). Maybe it doesn't count in your eyes, but

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

2009-01-25 Thread Jakob Praher
Hi eric, see my other post. I think I am open to any kind of mapping that works for me. I have no problem setting up a plan9 like authentication scenario, since I have only a couple of users in my scenario. Some pointers are greatly appreciated. thanks Jakob Eric Van Hensbergen

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

2009-01-25 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Jakob Praher j...@hapra.at wrote: Hi, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com schrieb: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Jakob Praher j...@hapra.at wrote: (I know of) which support the UNIX extensions (for things like UID mapping, etc.) There is a comprehensive

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 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

2009-01-25 Thread lucio
This seams to be a complete Unix file system exporting solution for accesing remote file systems from Plan 9. Does u9fs (which I have used extensively for many years :-|) actually provide proper authentication? I never tought of it and I will try the following experiment once my morning

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 eri...@gmail.com 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

2009-01-25 Thread sqweek
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: This seams to be a complete Unix file system exporting solution for accesing remote file systems from Plan 9. Does u9fs (which I have used extensively for many years :-|) actually provide proper authentication? It does p9sk1,