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- X-RFC822-From: "L. Stuart Vance" <VANCE@TGV.COM>
- From: "L. Stuart Vance" <VANCE@TGV.COM>
- Subject: Re: RFC931 support?
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- > Absolutely none. RFC931 is NOT an authentication protocol, it is
- >a protocol which allows a user on a machine to claim that a particular
- >connection is owned by a particular user. It doesn't provide any
- >additional security, and a substantial false sense of security.
- >
- > We'd be happy to implement a protocol which did what RFC931 does
- >if someone could point out some value to it (other than security
- >through obscurity), and only if it weren't titled "Authentication
- >Server".
-
- I've heard tell that the IETF is working on an Ident SNMP MIB. It provides the
- same level of identification at RFC931, but integrated into an SNMP agent.
- It's no more secure than RFC931, but it'll be much more difficult to spoof and
- SNMP agent than the rather simple-minded RFC931 protocol.
-
- Regards,
- -----Stuart
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