sys-fauth man page on Inferno

sys-fauth man page on Inferno

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SYS-FAUTH(2)							  SYS-FAUTH(2)

NAME
       fauth - set up authentication on a file descriptor to a file server

SYNOPSIS
       include "sys.m";
       sys := load Sys Sys->PATH;

       fauth:  fn(fd: ref FD, aname: string): ref FD;

DESCRIPTION
       Fauth  provides	a means for the current user to authenticate to access
       resources available through the 9P connection represented by  fd.   The
       return  value  is a file descriptor, conventionally called afd, that is
       subsequently used  to  execute  the  authentication  protocol  for  the
       server.	After successful authentication, afd may be passed as the sec‐
       ond argument to a subsequent mount call	(see  sys-bind(2)),  with  the
       same aname, as a ticket-of-entry for the user.

       If  fauth  returns nil, the error case, that means the file server does
       not require authentication for the connection, and afd should be nil in
       the call to mount.

SEE ALSO
       attach(5), security-auth(2)

DIAGNOSTICS
       The  system  error  string  is  set  on error, including the server not
       requiring authentication, and fauth returns nil.

								  SYS-FAUTH(2)

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