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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