incoming.conf length limits
Erik Klavon
erik at eriq.org
Sat Jan 18 19:29:00 UTC 2003
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:15:13PM -0500, Todd Olson wrote:
> e) Currently authentication can happen in one of two ways
> i) via sidecar
> ii) nntp auth / Kerberos proxy
> (id/password sent from reader to server via nntp
> (server validates id/password via kerberos
> We are trying to move away from ii as clear text password
> over a network are a bad idea
You can get around the clear text password problem by requiring that
all connections be made via SSL.
Erik
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