Re: PAM authentication patch - v2

Brian Murphy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Mark D. Baushke wrote:

>I doubt I can convince you of how evil it is to send passwords in the
>clear for your :pserver: connections to cvs. I just shudder to think of
>folks seeing that cvs support PAM and thinking for some reason that it
>is not leaking their passwords in a large number of ways.
>
>  
>
PAM also works with telnet. I don't think anyone thinks a PAM enabled login
via telnet is any more secure than an ordinary passwd based login.

/Brian
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