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Re: [RFC] Adding a challenge-response authentication method to git://

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20080814210003.GQ3782@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.DEB.1.10.0808141018220.13400@asgard.lang.hm>
david@lang.hm wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> Isn't there some authentication frontend that some IMAP servers
>> use to handle the authentication for them?  I think last time
>> I setup bincimap it used checkpassword.  We might want to do the
>> same if we are going down this road...
>
> are you thinking of SASL?

Maybe I was. But I think I was thinking about DJB's checkpassword tool. There are several tools that implement the same calling conventions, some of which link to PAM or an LDAP database, etc. Plus its fairly easy to create your own if you really needed a custom solution. You just have to be able to read fd 3. :)

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 18 of 18 in “[RFC] Adding a challenge-response authentication method to git://”
  1. Stephen R. van den BergAug 13, 2008
  2. Petr BaudisAug 13, 2008
  3. David BrownAug 14, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  5. Stephen R. van den BergAug 14, 2008
  6. Petr BaudisAug 14, 2008
  7. Stephen R. van den BergAug 14, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceAug 13, 2008
  9. Stephen R. van den BergAug 13, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceAug 13, 2008
  11. Stephen R. van den BergAug 14, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceAug 14, 2008
  13. Stephen R. van den BergAug 14, 2008
  14. Andreas EricssonAug 14, 2008
  15. Stephen R. van den BergAug 14, 2008
  16. david@lang.hmAug 14, 2008
  17. david@lang.hmAug 14, 2008
  18. Shawn O. PearceAug 14, 2008

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