Plan 9: Password Management

 An authentication server manages users credentials in a Plan 9 grid. However, if you are just getting started, probably it would be a better idea to directly use factotum for managing credentials for various services.

Create a file keys with the following content. 

key proto=pass        service=ftp server=10.0.2.2 user=anand !password=<password>
key proto=wpapsk service=wpa essid=Tomato24 !password=<password>
 

Load the keys in factotum. 

read -m keys > /mnt/factotum/ctl
 
# Verify
cat  /mnt/factotum/ctl
 


Now you can log into the services without manually entering the password.

ftpfs 10.0.2.2
aux/wpa -s Tomato24 /net/ether1 

Finally, you can add the command to $home/lib/profile so that it will be executed automatically during bootup.

 

 

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