> I think a more precise way of saying it is that in 9p2000 and > the new styx, authentication has been moved outside the > protocol proper. styx==9p now; the names are used by > convention to imply the auth method, if any.
You're right. I stand corrected. For some reason I had thought that the Tauth message was different, but I see that in both man pages it just carries the afid obtained by an exchange not specified by the protocol. BLS