Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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?
Because I haven't delved too deeply into SASL at all, and just wanted to
see how such a thing would be implemented. As I've said, I'm not
pushing to commit something like this, I was just playing around and
thought others might find something like this useful.
> 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.)
Honestly, sending a username along with ANONYMOUS just hadn't occured to
me. Perhaps I will look at implementing that as an option, as it does
seem like it might be useful in some situations.
-garrett
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Received on Sun Sep 14 00:14:41 2003