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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP telnet/telnetd SRA patches
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 06:15:45 -0700
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To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>

Nick Sayer wrote:
> I have just finished an all-nighter adding the SRA authentication
> code to the libtelnet in 2.2-960801-SNAP. There are some rough edges
> still, but I have at least managed to do authenticated logins
> both between my Sun and to localhost. I haven't quite convinced it
> to go straight into an encrypted session after authentication yet,
> though.
> 
> Does anyone care? :-) I can make patches if so.

It's interesting, and if it makes FreeBSD interoperable with a popular
Sun authentication method then I'd say hey, go for it for that reason
alone, but it does beg the question somewhat - what's the advantage over
ssh?
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project