Subj : Re: Packet passwords
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Sat May 28 2016 06:03 am


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MH> There is only one location in the DB config for session password.  It is
MH> located under "Advanced/Misc Security".
 
MH> There is a separate location for a "Packet Password" that is located
MH> under "Packet/Mail Control".
 
MH> I have verified that I only have "Session Passwords" setup with no
MH> "Packet Passwords".  The Packet Password field is totally blank - never
MH> has been used.
 
MH> I can also verify that my hub instance is sending echomail with a packet
MH> password - using what I have setup under "Session Password".
 
That is what has been going on for about 3 months now.  The ultimate solution 
to this should be coming in the next few months. unless you just simply cave in 
and add a session password to your config.
 
MH> I'm assuming that packet passwords were previously ignored in both
MH> Synchronet and Mystic.  That's an assumption, but I have no other
MH> explanation as to why we just recently started noticing this issue.
 
Right.
 
MH> The solution was simple.  I just asked my uplinks to add a Packet
MH> Password to match our session password.
 
I don't blame you for doing that, but I'd like to know what happened.  I want 
to know if my mailer is doing that, but I don't think it is.  Joe and I tested 
this by removing the session password and so everything began working again.  
Once a session password in placed, however, the problem begins anew.  I have 
never had a packet password for him and many others, whom, I might add, do not 
have this problem.
 
 
....If you take life too seriously, it ceases to be funny.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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