.TH CPU 1 .SH NAME cpu \- connection to cpu server .SH SYNOPSIS .B cpu [ .B -h .I server ] [ .B -u .I user ] [ .B -a .I auth-method ] [ .B -P .I patternfile ] [ .B -e .I encryption-hash-algs ] [ .B -k .I keypattern ] [ .B -c .I cmd args ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Cpu starts an .IR rc (1) running on the .I server machine, or the machine named in the .B $cpu environment variable if there is no .B -h option. .IR Rc 's standard input, output, and error files will be .B /dev/cons in the name space where the .I cpu command was invoked. Normally, .I cpu is run in an .IR rio (1) window on a terminal, so .IR rc output goes to that window, and input comes from the keyboard when that window is current. .IR Rc 's current directory is the working directory of the .I cpu command itself. .PP The name space for the new .I rc is an analogue of the name space where the .I cpu command was invoked: it is the same except for architecture-dependent bindings such as .B /bin and the use of fast paths to file servers, if available. .PP If a .B -u argument is present, .I cpu uses the argument as the remote user id. .PP If a .B -c argument is present, the remainder of the command line is executed by .I rc on the server, and then .I cpu exits. .PP If a .B -P argument is present, the .I patternfile is passed to .IR exportfs (4) to control how much of the local name space will be exported to the remote system. .PP The .B -a command allows the user to specify the authentication mechanism used when connecting to the remote system. The two possibilities for .I auth-method are: .TF netkey .TP .B p9 This is the default. Authentication is done using the standard Plan 9 mechanisms, (see .IR authsrv (6)). No user interaction is required. .TP .B netkey Authentication is done using challenge/response and a hand held authenticator or the .I netkey program (see .IR passwd (1)). The user must encrypt the challenge and type the encryption back to .IR cpu . This is used if the local host is in a different protection domain than the server or if the user wants to log into the server as a different user. .PD .PP The .B -e option specifies an encryption and/or hash algorithm to use for the connection. If both are specified, they must be space separated and comprise a single argument, so they must be quoted if in a shell command. The default is .L rc4_256 encryption and .L sha1 hashing. See .IR ssl (3) for details on possible algorithms. The argument .L clear specifies no encryption algorithm and can be used to talk to older versions of the .B cpu service. .PP The .B -k flag specifies a key pattern to use to restrict the keys selected by the .I auth_proxy call used for authentication. .PP The name space is built by running .B /usr/$user/lib/profile with the root of the invoking name space bound to .BR /mnt/term . The .B service environment variable is set to .BR cpu ; the .B cputype and .B objtype environment variables reflect the server's architecture. .SH FILES The name space of the terminal side of the .B cpu command is mounted, via .IR exportfs (4), on the CPU side on directory .BR /mnt/term . The files such as .B /dev/cons are bound to their standard locations from there. .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/cmd/cpu.c .SH SEE ALSO .IR rc (1) , .IR rio (1) , .IR exportfs (4) .SH BUGS Binds and mounts done after the terminal .B lib/profile is run are not reflected in the new name space. .PP When using the .B -a option to `log in' as another user, be aware that resources in the local name space will be made available to that user.