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| Hello Todd, hello everybody, (...) ^^^...^^^ Or if someone is using Outlook Express, which unfortunately defaults to email response when hitting "reply" in the toolbar ... :-( I have been following the discussion about inline authentication for a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Ok, I think I've finally got it narrowed down. Looks like there's a horrible bug in the spawn() function of spawn.c of the NNTP Reference Implementation. Here's the loop where it spools stdin out to a tempfile, minus a few superfluous lines of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I'm not either -- at least not as something that can be relied upon for everyone. (...) Ya, it's fine for short-term login things when mixed with a password, but HTTP proxy servers really complicate the equation. Basically you can't trust the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| "Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:GF55F7.Bp4@lugnet.com... (...) I have to agree with Mark. We also post via newsreader and this new method of posting will probably drop the number of messages I post. I also have the problem (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) And it'd have to be something that can't be easily automated by the poster - this defeats the scheme. I've seen some web pages which generate a bitmap containing a string which isn't easily scanned, and asks you to type the string in to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| my messages are getting lost in the verification system. i.e. I sent five messages and only got one verification request. Rose Rose "LUGNET Admin" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:GF40AG.31A@lugnet.com... (...) forged (...) authenticated (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) you can't have the server scan for the users password in the message, since passwords arn't usually saved anywhere on the server at all. So to check for the password, each word, or combination of chars actually (since space can be part of the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Some tricks could be played to make it more secure. One would be to scan the message for the user's password and if it found it, but it didn't seem to be part of an authenticator, bounce the message. It could also use a fuzzy match for the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Not to mention the fact that many businesses and ISP's (Roadrunner for one) use DHCP so peoples IP's can and do change from day to day. I agree with Jake in his view that IP based authentication just won't work. Eric Kingsley (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| This is really annoying and is impacting my posting frequency. Since I use a cable modem, I'm always posting from the same IP address. Is there any way to enter an IP address as "authorized" to be myself? If that won't work, how about making it so (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I think that's a concern we all share, including Todd. I know that he has been very concerned about that every time the issue has come up in the past. What we have to do is work towards a system which is as painless as possible, which does not (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| Hi Todd - I'd also like to thank you for this. Now LUGNET is more secure. I do want to continue to voice the concerns a few others have had here though. I also use a newsreader 90% of the time to post, and its an inconvenience. It would be great if (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Personally, I am not a big fan of doing anything IP based. There are far too many problems. AOL dials, multiple computers (I regularly use three myself) and many other issues have made me decide against this method time and time again. <END (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) IP addresses can easily be spoofed, as long as you don't need an interactive session... as in, if I just need to send an HTTP POST, and don't need to read the reply, I can spoof the source ip with no problem. :/ (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Not currently, no. Let me think about IP-based authentication for a while. (...) This I can definitely do, but it will have to be at least somewhat interactive so that someone doesn't accidentally cause a message to get posted simply by (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: E-mail authentication during posting
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| (...) but by doing that, you'll be breaking the whole authentication process - If I know that you have such a rule that auto authorizes posts by you, I can spoof posts as you with no problem... your auto-reply will authorize them without (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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