Re: [netatalk-admins] Clear Passwords


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Clear Passwords
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 10 1997 - 07:21:29 EST


The latest of Adrian Sun's Netatalk patches allows two-way randnum
passwords. It also adds AFP over TCP functionality which is a big
performance boost.

(ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/asun/)

The problem is, for two-way randnum excange to work, the server must know
what the user's password is - on a standard Unix system, the system does
not maintain a list of passwords.

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Friedrich Stoetzer wrote:

> Hello to all!
>
> We are new on using Netatalk and therefor not too experienced.
> It seems, that passwords are transfered in clear text. Is there
> a way to omit this? (We are using Netatalk 1.4b2)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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