On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:23:26AM -0500, Dale Woolridge wrote:
> | 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.
I'm indifferent to the netstring format, but being interchangable with other
authenticators that use fd3 has the advantage of widening the range of off the shelf
authenticators that binc could use.
But what I really want to say is that anyone writing an authenticator who can't get
the fd3 stuff to work should not be writing an authenticator. We're not talking about
rocket science, we're talking about read(3, buf, buffsz);, which is no different than
read(0, buf, buffsz);.
C=)
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