Subject: Re: Preauthentication problem with rsh

From: Lyndon Nerenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jul 1997 14:16:11 -0600

Arnaud Taddei <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	2) anybody who wants to deploy IMAP servers for "big" sites and 
>     	   wants to rely on this feature will go for trouble (try to tell 
> 	   users that now they have to use a password)

Well, we're installed in some "big" sites, and it doesn't seem to be
a problem. A well designed client will provide an option to cache (in
memory -- not on disk!) a default password for a given message store, and
replay it on the users behalf. Thus, you enter the password the first
time you access the message store, and the client enters it for you
on any subsequent folder opens against the same server.

> 	4) In the longer term there is a general problem with
> 	   preauthentication

Yup. That's why we highly recommend alternative solutions such
as Kerberos.

--lyndon

Lyndon Nerenberg				The ESYS Corporation
Sr. Software Developer
Server Products					http://www.esys.ca/

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