Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-23 Thread David du Colombier
I am using Factotum on both Plan 9 and Linux for years. The lack of a proper integration in modern browsers always bothered me. I recall it was discussed here in the past, but nothing was done to my knowledge. So far, I used a tool to display the required login and password from Factotum, and

Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-23 Thread Ruben Schuller
2011-11-23 09:33:04 David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.com I am using Factotum on both Plan 9 and Linux for years. A little bit off-topic: I'm rather new to plan9(port) stuff, how does your factotum setup with linux look like / what is it used for? Ruben

Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-23 Thread David du Colombier
A little bit off-topic: I'm rather new to plan9(port) stuff, how does your factotum setup with linux look like / what is it used for? I boot in init 3. Just after login, my profile script execute factotum, ask for the password, feed it from a local secstore, then launch rio or wmii. Factotum

Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-23 Thread Ruben Schuller
Thanks for the hints and the link to Russ' post. I think I'll play around with some of this :)

Re: [9fans] factotum auth for commodity web browsers?

2011-11-22 Thread Salman Aljammaz
I don't know if any exist out there, but I've been thinking of trying to hack something together recently. I've gone as far as compiling Chromium from source. (A major step on its own!) This came to me after rediscovering WebID (previously known as foaf+ssl) which uses client-side certificates.