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[Russ Allbery]

Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

> We think would prefer auth_krb5 over sidecar.
> However I have noted that when should side car be needed,
> people only tend to turn it on when prompted.
> That is they might start a news client, read for a while,
> then try to post, get a request for authentication,
> turn on sidecar
> and then try to post again.
> That was why we tried sidecar at post time.

> As you say, I should reinvestigate this issue.

Ah... I see.  Yeah, our Sidecar equivalent starts at system startup and is
always running.

> In general I'm against working around broken clients ... because then
> they will never be fixed.  It at all possible servers should adhere to
> some standard that then we can lobby all the clients to support.

That's a valid point.

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