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I reached a small dead end while I was thinking about organizing a home grid.
A typical grid is represented with a terminal, file server, auth, and CPU. All data is stored on a file server, authorization via auth, etc.
For now I have only one laptop with Plan 9 (9front). But can I integrate this laptop into the "classic" grid? Or do you have other grid configurations?
For example, a user on my laptop who authenticates locally also authenticates on devices in other home grid. Something like two auth servers.
Perhaps I'm missing something simple, but I couldn't find similar examples in the FQA and documentation.
2023-12-27 · 6 months ago · 👍 zetamacs
🖥️ zetamacs · 2024-01-07 at 22:03:
You absolutely can integrate it in a classic configuration.
Before getting too excited about auth servers though, try getting yourself a standalone cpu server with authentication (check FQA 7 and this site maybe: https://jacobgw.com/blog/plan9/2021/05/19/cpuserv.html). That will show you how auth and secstore work on the system. From there, you'll see that a standalone auth server isn't too hard to configure. The key is that cpu servers have to be explicitly configured to 'respect' auth servers, whether the auth server is them or some other machine. One nice thing about this is that, if two or more cpu servers are configured with the same auth server, the auth server can authenticate for them all.
🖥️ zetamacs · 2024-01-07 at 22:03:
Good luck! Let me know if I can help!