Factotum (software)
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Factotum is a password management and authentication protocol negotiation virtual file system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. When a program 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 program. For long-term storage, keys are usually stored in secstore or in an encrypted file.
Factotum was introduced in August 2002, at that year's USENIX in Berkeley, California.
See also
External links
- in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Volume 1.
- in 9front.
- 2007-03-02 at the Wayback Machine in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Volume 2.