From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 15 16:50:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5AA614C45 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 26475 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 1999 23:50:19 -0000 Message-ID: <19990815235019.26473.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 26462 invoked from network); 15 Aug 1999 23:50:18 -0000 Received: from adsl-216-103-90-137.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO walton) (216.103.90.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 23:50:18 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:48:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ? Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com References: <19990815221506.26169.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Aug 99, at 15:33, Kris Kennaway wrote: > /etc/tpasswd is a way of storing the SRP information separately for > systems which cannot handle it being in /etc/passwd directly. At least > with my replacement libcrypt this isn't an issue as far as I know. Even better. > Ideally, things like SRP, SRA, CHAP, PAP, etc, > should be available as plugins to client/server apps, so we don't have to > make separate patches to telnet/telnetd, ftp/ftpd, etc, for all of the > authentication protocols-of-the-day. I thought that the purpose of PAM was to do just that, at least for the server side (telnetd, ftpd, etc). Am I mistaken? > I think I've heard rumours of agreements by some of the superpowers > (Microsoft, etc) to standardize on SRP. Oh hell, now it's ruined. :) > This presumably means a common protocol. Until someone pulls "embrace and extend" on us... > I should look into this more - anyone have any real information? It's news to me. The only time I've seen SRP and Microsoft in the same sentence, it's meant "Suggested Retail Price". On the other hand, a quick search for "Microsoft and SRP" led me to discover that Kermit95 supports SRP authentication. It's a start, at least. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message