Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me with this.
I am trying as an experiment to set up a small plan9 cluster as a set of
computers in a VMWare environment.
I am using the latest 9front distribution, and currently have two VMs
booting plan9 with one network adapter each, on a private network (not
connected to the internet or to the host computer), with no DHCP being
provided by VMWare, and am attempting manual isolated configuration for now.
As far as I can tell, I was able to get an auth server running, booting
off its own installation, with authentication enabled on its
filesystem. It comes up without the window system running (as a cpu
server) and "keyfs" is among the processes which are listed when I run
"ps"; I was able to use auth/changeuser to create user accounts for the
hostowner users "glenda" (for my file server) and another account for my
auth server, and was able to arrange for secstored to start with the
system (from cpurc) and that seems to be working - I also created
accounts in there to match the two I created with auth/changeuser, and
both accounts are defined on the filesystem. If I do "ps | grep listen"
I see five processes running: two owned by the host owner and three by
"none".
I have a second system set up which I intend to be the file server (more
storage space) and I can successfully use "rcpu" to access the auth
server from that one. The file server is still booting as a terminal
rather than a cpu server, and I created matching user accounts (newuser)
on the filesystem on the file server.
The last part of the /lib/ndb/local file on the file server looks like this:
auth=fingers authdom=9cluster
ipnet=9cluster ip=192.168.81.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
fs=cabinet
tftpd=cabinet
auth=fingers
authdom=9cluster
dnsdomain=9cluster
# file server
sys=cabinet ether=005056301268 ip=192.168.81.10
dom=cabinet.9cluster
# auth server
sys=fingers ether=00505635c452 ip=192.168.81.12
dom=fingers.9cluster
As I understand it, the next step would be to enable authentication on
the file server. I do this by rebooting, adding -c to the bootargs and
at the "config:" prompt entering "noauth" twice, then "end".
When I try to do this, I am getting this set of messages:
mount: auth_proxy: auth_proxy read fd: authread: auth protocol not finished
mount: mount /root: authread: auth protocol not finished
followed by a list of partitions then a new prompt for bootargs
I am interpreting this to mean that I missed something in my
authentication configuration, but after trying several things, I am a
bit lost on how to proceed with this.
Can someone point me in the direction of what I might be missing?
Thank you!
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