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- SEA Technical Memorandum #0201, SEAdog 4.50; Session Passwording
- Last updated: November 16, 1988
- Copyright 1988 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
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- SEAdog 4.50
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- Session Passwording
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- SEAdog version 4.50 implements a form of session passwording to verify the
- origins of files received by network mail. This is implemented in the
- CONFIG.DOG configuration file.
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- First, an alternate received files area for verified files must be
- established. The name of the verified files directory is given as the
- second argument to the FILES configuration statement.
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- For example, suppose the bulk of your received files are to go into
- C:\MAIL\INPUT, but verified files are to go into C:\MAIL\VERIFIED. The
- appropriate FILES statement would be:
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- files C:\MAIL\INPUT C:\MAIL\VERIFIED
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- Passwords for verified file transfers are established with the undocumented
- PASSWORD configuration verb. As an example, suppose that files coming to
- you from node 520/1015 are to be verified with the password "BLATZ". The
- appropriate PASSWORD statement in your CONFIG.DOG file would be:
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- password blatz 520/1015
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- As presently implemented, this connects with the PASSWORD command in the
- ROUTE.DOG file. If PASSWORD statements are given in both CONFIG.DOG and in
- ROUTE.DOG, then the one given in CONFIG.DOG takes precedence.
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- For example, if your CONFIG.DOG file contains the statement:
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- password blatz 520/1015
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- and your ROUTE.DOG file contains the statement:
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- password gnorf 520/1015
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- then node 520/1015 would need to use the password "BLATZ" in order to pick
- up mail.
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- The session password is stored in the packet header in the same location as
- a pickup password. This means (among other things) that if you establish a
- session password for node 520/1015, then he need only implement it as a
- pickup password on his end.
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- NOTE: If you do any session passwording at all, then both ARCmail 2.00 and
- GROUP 2.00 will look only in the verified directory.
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