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Re: User authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Wed May 31 00:13:22 1995
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 13:21:05 +0500
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Reply-To: nazgul@utopia.com
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
At 6:37 AM 5/29/95, Martin Hamilton wrote:
>e.g. students in a public access lab being required to supply a valid
>user name and password to a local "authentication server" before the
>browser will allow them to send mail or post news. The authenticated
On the mail side I believe there is a POP3 extension which allows sending
mail. Since POP requires a password that might meet your needs. However I
suspect you'll have trouble convincing browser authors to support a feature
that has a rather restricted domain like that.
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-6100
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
