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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!erinews.ericsson.se!eua.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP telnet/telnetd SRA patches Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 06:15:45 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <322C2F81.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <nyq21XO@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Nick Sayer wrote: > I have just finished an all-nighter adding the SRA authentication > code to the libtelnet in 2.2-960801-SNAP. There are some rough edges > still, but I have at least managed to do authenticated logins > both between my Sun and to localhost. I haven't quite convinced it > to go straight into an encrypted session after authentication yet, > though. > > Does anyone care? :-) I can make patches if so. It's interesting, and if it makes FreeBSD interoperable with a popular Sun authentication method then I'd say hey, go for it for that reason alone, but it does beg the question somewhat - what's the advantage over ssh? -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project