Subj : Password Question
To   : deon
From : Oli
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 03:22 pm

deon wrote (2022-01-14):

 d> You dont need a perl script to hide AKA's - it's a config option.
 d> Although IIRC, you were playing with a perl script that enhanced the hide
 d> AKA option that binkd provides.

Right, you can use hide-aka. But there is more flexibility with the perl hooks.

 d> On FSX Hub 3, it's a hub for multiple networks, but when anybody in FSX
 d> connects to it, it'll hide the AKA's for the other networks that are not
 d> common with the hub.

Same here.

 d> The side effect is, if more than 1 address is in
 d> common (and thus presented), then the password must be the same for each,
 d> otherwise you get that "invalid password" type message.

It would be great to force the client to present only one AKA and/or announce for which AKA it is calling.

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