/sys/doc/auth.ps is much more interesting. my analogy is that YOU are factotum and your assistant is the program that you (factotum) will authenticate to the remote system to act on your behalf.
> Factotum is some guy in the room that, even though you have the phone, you > keep asking what to say next on the line to get authentication to happen. > > Is this a bad analogy? > Factotum is available on the client side during authentication via a library > we can use to talk to it. When we get an "afd" we basically write and read > from it asking our local factotum what to say next? > Is this where the proxying happens? If so I think I get it... otherwise no > :-) > > Dave
