AUTHINFO GENERIC

[Todd Olson]

Hi

I'm trying to understand how nnrpd handles

     AUTHINFO GENERIC

and I'm not making much head way with the source (my limitation)


  a) how does nnrpd set things up so that the external authenticator
     it invokes can converse with the client over the established tcp/ip
     connection?

  b) after the authenticator is done how does nnrpd recover the
     tcp/ip connection

  c) what information does the authenticator need to report to nnrpd
     and via what channel?
        (I get the impression that the authenticator has had it's
        (stdio connected to the tcp/ip connection to the client
        (so how does it communicate with nnrpd?

  d) Does  AUTHINFO GENERIC  bypass reader.conf   ??


My apologies if this is all documented somewhere ... I've not
been able to find it yet.

Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University