Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. The film is principally a Norwegian production, although with an American cast. It was released in Norway in 2005 and distributed in the U.S. by IFC Films in 2006.

Factotum is the second novel written by Charles Bukowski published in 1975. The plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and instead makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).

employee o' assistant who duz plum about everydin'.

employee or assistant 'oo does just about evryfink.

employee or assistant who does just about everything.

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.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a person with many different responsibilities.

a servant employed to do a variety of jobs

A dedicated member of a faction.