For information on editing, see the description of Plan 9 wiki syntax.
Plan 9 provides the usual complement of ftp, telnet, and rexec clients and servers though the servers require secure challenge/response authentication using either a securenet(8) card or a software simulation of it. * Plan 9 has an ssh client and server, though these support only SSHv1 at present, though SSHv2 is in progress (see TODO list). Alternatively an OpenSSH port is available as a contrib(1) package, though sadly this fails to integrate with factotum(4) making it rather clunky to use. To enable ssh v1 under OpenSSH on a debian based Linux machine. First ensure the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file contains the lines: ! Protocol 2,1 ! HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Then run the following commands as root: ! ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ! chmod 644 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ! /etc/init.d/ssh restart No doubt other linuices are similar, but slightly different. * NFS filesystems may be imported into a Plan 9 system using nfs(4), Plan 9 also has an NFS server nfsserver(8) which may export parts of a Plan 9 file server to foreign systems. * Posix systems may share their filesystems by running u9fs(4) (usually invoked from inetd) which exports some or all of the local filesystem to a remote Plan 9 system using the native Plan 9 file protocol. Can run from inetd or start from Plan 9 using [srvssh]. * Netware filesystems may be imported using ncpfs(4) which is distributed separately from the main Plan 9 release in /n/sources/contrib/steve/ncpfs.tar.bz2 * CIFS (Windows or samba) filesystems may be imported using cifs which is distributed separately from the main Plan 9 release by Steve Simon. To get it, you will first need Federico Benevento's contrib system, and then CIFS: ! 9fs sources # if not already done ! /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib # get contrib system ! contrib/install steve/cifs # get CIFS * Plan 9 files may be served to windows clients with aquarela(8). * Plan 9 provides a vnc(1) client and server. (see [Using vncv]) * Another option using the native 9p protocol is the [hubfs] shell multiplexer. It functions similarly to screen/tmux and allows persistent shells shared from another operating system to Plan 9 and vice versa. It is found in contrib/mycroftiv/hubfs1.1.
