> >From one real-life experience where I've seen this scheme implemented it
> is in fact easier to insist that the customer check for mail first, thus
> initiating the POP authentication. In fact this is trivial when the
> client uses something like Netscape as a mail client. If the connection
> drops before the outgoing queue is clear then the user need only initiate
> the connection by attempting to check for e-mail and everything seems to
> happen in the right order.
>
> Of course if your authentication daemon doubles as a dial-up manager,
> then it's almost as easy to convince users to always use it. Writing a
> dial-up manager is not difficult, but it's an entirely different kettle
> of fish too.
>
> --
> Greg A. Woods
>
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>
Why? Why can't I just get a small daemon to be started on startup, and to
listen for IP requests on a particular port and passively wait for
connections?
Julian
Unix Admin, Internet Vision
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