Subj : Session Password recovery
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Wed Nov 13 2024 20:51:26


Hello Wilfred!

13 Nov 24 15:55, you wrote to me:




 > If done correctly in the binkp protocol, the password is never send
 > accross the line, only checksums that are generated with the password
 > (I think that is what the OPT CRAM-MD5 is supposed to do). So you
 > can't recover the password from the session.

 > If you have no other way of communicating with the nodes sysop, I
 > would block them on the firewall, maybe they notice that at some point
 > in the future. Or perhaps an other node that has no session password
 > set with this node, can deliver a crashmail for you?

Thanks for that idea, done for both IP and URL.

Now to confirm that works :(

Thanks again.


Vincent


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