newscache: Thread: Re: [attn client authors] Multiple AUTHINFOs per session]

The original article from news.software.nntp is attached (see below). 
You can help finding situation with more then one authinfo command per 
session. All Commands are logged in news.debug (depending on 
/etc/syslog.conf settings). You can find multiple authinfo commands per 
session with:

$ grep -i "\] authinfo" news.debug | awk '{print $5}' | sort | uniq 
--count | awk '$1>1{print}'

Herbert Straub

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [attn client authors] Multiple AUTHINFOs per session
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 01:46:43 +0000 (UTC)
From: ####@####.#### (Jeffrey M. Vinocur)
Organization: Litech Systems Design
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.readers
Followup-To: news.software.nntp

[ note that I've set followups to news.software.nntp ]

There is currently discussion on the ietf-nntp mailing list on
whether we should permit clients to perform multiple
authentications steps per session.  That is, after a successful
AUTHINFO, should the client be permitted to issue AUTHINFO again.

The consensus seems to be that there is no real-world use for
this functionality.  However, if you have written (or use) a
client which issues multiple AUTHINFOs in a single session, or if
you've written a server and see clients doing this, we want to
hear about it now rather than later.  Thus, please respond
either here or on ietf-nntp (or via email to me if you prefer).


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
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