Re: naive authentication scheme for ra_svn

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:49, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> Well, I was playing around this weekend, and I hacked something together
> to do just that. It implements a new SASL mechanism, 'NAIVE', which has
> the user send a username and an md5 encoded password over the wire to
> the server, which authenticates them against a simple tab delimited file.

There are already SASL mechanisms this dumb; why invent a new one?

For that matter, why implement a SASL mechanism this dumb? ANONYMOUS
can carry a username without creating a false illusion of password
security. The current code doesn't send or process usernames, but that
would be easy to change. (Accepting usernames for anonymous auth would
have to be a non-default server option, of course.)

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Received on Sun Sep 14 00:07:40 2003