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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Julian wrote:
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>> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Julian wrote:
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>> > Any thoughts, comments, or counter proposals?
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>> Encrypted RFC 1413 text strings?
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>Naah, ident isn't any use. Identd just returns whatever
>the daemon has been set up to return. I really want to lock
>this down such that the daemon needs to know what to return in
>order to actually get 'permission'.
>
>Envisaged is a 'conversation' during which an exchange of public keys
>and 'Auth details' takes place. Arguably similar in concept to
>ssh, in that at the end of it the sshd decides whether to let the
>connection attempt succeed or fail.
>
>There are proposals out there which are vaguely close to what is
>needed, but there still aren't any hooks in exim to let us
>use them. I am proposing something reasonably generic which calls
>an external program - or if necessary an external daemon (c.f. NIS)
>and gets authentication from that.
>
>Julian
>Unix Admin, Internet Vision
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