On 8-Mar-2003 22:55 Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
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| I have one approach that I request your feedback on: the authenticator
| reads the username and password from stdin in netstring format, for
| example:
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| +4,8:andy->password
Hmm...this looks more like cdbmake input. The netstring equivalent
for name 'andy' and password 'password':
4:andy,8:password,
| For me this seems to be almost as simple as using the environment from a
| technical standpoint. We could also use checkpassword's format, but I
| think some people will struggle with getting the fd 3 stuff to work. I
| want this to be really simple.
Yes, I can understand that. I don't think the netstring format
is too cumbersome either.
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-dale
