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Re: RFC: Revised authentication protocol


From: Richard Braun
Subject: Re: RFC: Revised authentication protocol
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:09:56 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:29:54PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> For those of you who have followed my netmsg threads, you may remember that
> there were two major issues when I first got it running.  One was
> libpager's lack of multi-client support, which has been discussed at
> length, and the other was authentication, which we haven't discussed at all.

Well, not exactly. I think I've mentioned Plan9's factotum at some
point, which I'll remind again in this message as a reference we can
draw from.

> Here's my proposal for dealing with the authentication issue.
> 
> Comments?

I'm not completely familiar with the inner workings of the auth
server but they look easy enough to imagine. Still, an opinion
from someone more familiar with it like Olaf would be great.

>From what I've read, it looks good. I can't imagine a scenario that
would defeat your assertions.

-- 
Richard Braun



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