Hashing of usernames in syslog

[Erik Klavon]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:37:22PM -0400, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Erik Klavon wrote:
> > I'm not sure how to achieve this and still authenticate users with the
> > new perl hooks. 

[...]

> The authenticator (the program in ~news/bin/auth/ you're using) can return 
> a username (possibly with domain) by printing a string like "User:%s\n" or 
> "User:%s@%s\n" on stdout.
>
> (I don't see any reason you couldn't put the hashing in your 
> authenticator.)

So it seems an even better solution to my problem would be to add that
feature to the perl authentication hook.

Erik

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