Factotum (software)
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- The correct title of this article is factotum. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
factotum is a password management and authentication protocol negotiation virtual file system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. When a programme wants to authenticate to a service, it requests a key from factotum. If factotum does not have the key, it requests it from the users either via the terminal window or auth/fgui which is then stored in volatile memory. factotum then authenticates to the service on behalf of the programme. For long term storage, keys are usually stored in sectore or in an encrypted file.
[edit] External links
- factotum(4) in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Volume 1.
- Security in Plan 9 in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Volume 2.
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