Modularization of authprogs

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On 5 Mar 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Hm.  Should we go all the way to making a libinnauth library with an
> installable man page?  We could pull the code in nnrpd into that library
> as well, so that it handles both the sending and receiving side (which
> would give us flexibility to change the protocol more easily if we ever
> wanted to).  Maybe that's overkill, though.  (But it may make shifting
> towards long-running authentication programs easier.  Hm.)

Does anyone have much of an opinion on this?  I don't think it would be
complicated, and it might be a good idea.  Mm.  I will consider.

Indeed, that would make long-running auth easier...except we don't
actually need to modify nnrpd to do that; we'd just need to modify both
nnrpd and libauth in the future.  Are we actually to the point we're
interested in doing long-running authenticators?  I think it'd most
effective to pursue libinnauth simultaneously.

Is anyone else interested in working on nnrpd-related stuff?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org