Pogoplug and AFPD, some progress, some roadblock

It turns out it's relatively straightforward to get afpd (in netatalk package from ipkg) running and have OSX talk to pogoplug through AFP as Guest user (this How-To turns out to be quite useful) - you need to set uam_guest.so as uam module, and use usedots option (I'll post my config later). However, I can't seem to get the authentication working yet. Since I can control the guest user id on pogoplug side, this wouldn't be such a big problem, except I have my disk formatted as NTFS and hbplug mounts the disk as root with default umask 755 AND afpd doesn't allow me to set uid 0 as the guest user. :( Hence, currently I can only read from pogoplug, but not write and thus I can't get this working as timemachine yet.

For proper authentication, I'm guessing I'd need to recompile netatalk package with ssl support as the How-To says (though I couldn't verify whether ipkg netatalk has that support included, I'm guessing it doesn't based on syslog output). Well, I tried to download the source from here, but somehow cvs anon login fails for me. Oh well. Till my next spare time...