Subj : Passwds
To   : Oli
From : Rick Smith
Date : Fri Feb 09 2024 07:57 pm

Hello Oli!

Friday February 09 2024 22:00, you wrote to me:

 Ol>  * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'
 Ol> Rick wrote (2024-02-09):

 RS>> Hello All!

 RS>> I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its
 RS>> binkd or hpt.  I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my
 RS>> downlinks are subscribed to more than one.  Can they have
 RS>> different passwords for each network or do they have to be the
 RS>> same?  I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by making
 RS>> his different networks have the same passwd but I have others
 RS>> with different ones that work just fine?

 Ol> Where do you see the problems, where do you get errors? With binkd or
 Ol> hpt?

 Ol> It shouldn't be a problem to use different mail / packet passwords
 Ol> (the passwords you configure in your tosser / hpt config). The binkp
 Ol> protocol does not support negotiating multiple passwords for multiple
 Ol> AKAs within one session / poll, which can cause "weird "problems"".

 Ol> Some nodes use hide-aka lines in binkd.cfg to only present one
 Ol> specific AKA per poll. E.g.:

 Ol> hide-aka 5:123/456@fidonet !*@fidonet
 Ol> hide-aka 400:1/2@othernet !*@othernet

 Ol> One AKA, one password per session -> no problems. Different passwords
 Ol> could work in this case. But I think it's better to just use the same
 Ol> password. Multiple passwords don't make it more secure.

So likely only their session pwds have to be the same?


Regards,

Rick

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