AUTHINFO GENERIC

[Russ Allbery]

Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

> 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?

It doesn't.  All of the arguments to AUTHINFO GENERIC are given in the
initial command and are then passed to the authenticator.  The
authenticator must then return an nnrp.access string.

>   d) Does  AUTHINFO GENERIC  bypass reader.conf   ??

Yes.

Note that AUTHINFO GENERIC is something that we'll probably remove in
newer versions; I wouldn't recommend using it as the basis for future
work.  It has some severe limitations (for example, you can't do SASL via
it because it can't have a conversation with the client).

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