nanogui: Access control
Subject:
RE: Access control
From:
Simon Wood ####@####.####
Date:
13 Dec 2000 14:05:06 -0000
Message-Id: <44632C76B97BD211AF6B00805FADCAB202D7391B@exchange.saltaire.pace.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:15 PM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: Access control
>
> So, to sum up, I'm currently planning to implement a password based
> authentication method which can optionally use an MD5 hash algorithm to
> avoid sending the passwords as plaintext. Oh, and the authentication will
> be seperate from the TCP/IP networking support, so it should be possible
> to open up the permissions on the named socket and use the authentication
> in local mode too if you want.
>
[Simon Wood]
Personally I have no need to make nano-x network/multi user capable, though I expect others (like your self) want these features. Is it possible to #def the code so that this option(s) can be excluded in the build process so that I don't have to carry the extra code around.
I assume that clients that want to use this feature(s) will have to have some way of being informed that they are to communicate with a foreign server. Will existing clients HAVE to be re-written/re-compiled/neither, even if they don't uses this feature(s)???
Simon W.
