nnrpd's Argify() and passwords with spaces
Katsuhiro Kondou
Katsuhiro_Kondou at isc.org
Thu Dec 20 00:31:23 UTC 2001
In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112191237540.17124-100000 at marduk.litech.org>,
"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote;
} No -- the trouble is that we are unlikely to get support from newsreaders
} for a while; they send passwords exactly as typed and we'd like to
} work-as-expected as often as possible.
Yes, I know that. I mean co-work with newsreader
software.
} Sure, that would be nice. But if we're going to add new extensions (which
} is probably the best thing to do? so we maintain compatibility with
} existing software?) we should keep in mind that plaintext passwords are
} bad.
Excactly. But here I'd like to make it clear 'AUTHINFO'
and 'AUTHINFO SIMPLE' in 2980. It does not mention user/
password which includes spaces.
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Katsuhiro Kondou
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