Subj : Pssword ord ord case insensitive or not? To : Alan Ianson From : Oli Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 13:05:09 23 Apr 20 02:36, you wrote to me: Ol>> It could be like BSO for inbound. You just need a good Ol>> specification for the format. E.g. Node 7:8/9 calls and received Ol>> files are put into Ol>> inbound/othernet.7.8.9.0/trusted/ Ol>> [...] Ol>> No need to specifiy an inbox for every node and point in the Ol>> mailer's config. AI> I think that's an interesting idea and as Tommi suggested it could be AI> made to work with environment variables or include files. AI> I'm happy with my inbound as it is and can't think of any reason to AI> make it more complicated. The goal would be to have support for something like this in the mailer _and_ tosser software and have a solution that is less complicated. Realistically it would be just another format with limited support ;). On the other hand it is not that complicated. AI>>> If we had a reliable/secure session we wouldn't need packet AI>>> passwords or inbound directories randomly placed around the file AI>>> system. Ol>> I still don't understand how that helps. What exactly do you have Ol>> in mind? AI> I don't actually have anything in mind. I dunno how we got on this AI> topic. :) You said binkps could make packet passwords obsolete. I still want to know how that would work ;). Ol>> The problem is the interface between mailer and tosser. Everyone Ol>> with a session password can drop anything in my shared "secure" Ol>> inbound. So now we need a packet password, because the Ol>> information about the session is thrown out the window and isn't Ol>> communicated to the tosser. We wouldn't need a packet password, Ol>> if the tosser did know that the packet was delivered in an Ol>> authenticated session with node 7:8/9. AI> Isn't that the difference between a secure and unsecure inbound? AI> It is a shared inbound but it is secure. There is a difference between 1) this pkt/file is from some authenticated node (we don't know which one) 2) this pkt/file is from node 7:8/9 For 1) you have to use packet passwords (if you have more than one uplink/downlink). With 2) the packet password would be redundant. * Origin: kakistocracy (2:280/464.47) .