readers.conf proposal: (was Re: incoming.conf length limits)

[Todd Olson]

At 15:20 -0800 2003/01/30, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Part of me is inclined to argue that anyone doing the sort of access
>control that really needs this level of detail ideally wants to just
>construct a custom group pattern for each user entirely inside their
>custom-written authentication hook, and if we add that to the external
>auth protocol like it already is in the Perl and Python hooks, that will
>address the problem.

Note that the unless the current Perl and Pythons hooks are upgraded
to have the 'port' available this won't work work for Cornell's
sidecar driven needs ....
....  (ie we can't use these hooks because we need the port
      (   yet we have to use these hooks because they are the only
      (   way to get custom group patterns

Fortunately there is already agreement on adding 'port' support to the hooks
(Thanks Erik!)  so this issue will soon be moot ... but I just wanted to
get it into the record ....

Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University