[Dxspider-support] Initial userpassword from RF side

[Dirk Koopman]

The only reason it is the way it is, is to cope with the fact that there
are people out there that will, speculatively, logon to likely nodes and
effectively lockout users from that node by adding passwords where none
existed before.

This was a huge(ish) problem that was identified when I first put
passwords in and, as a result, this is the current compromise.

Dirk G1TLH

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:23 +0100, Jann Traschewski wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Jann Traschewski, DG8NGN and I recently installed the
> DX-Spidersoftware at university Nürnberg DB0FHN. I noticed that it is
> currently not possible to let the users set their prefered initial password
> without requesting one from the admin. My policy at DB0FHN is that radio
> amateurs can set their password coming from RF and then get permission to
> connect via internet. Every "write"-service from the internet is protected
> through a password. So currently internet access is inactive.
> 
> I've searched the mailinglists about that topic and only found two little
> threads about it without any solution. We'll never get a closed
> hamradio-only network when sysops can choose between password active with
> too many request from users or password disabled (most will just disable
> password feature). So I just wanted to ask whether it will be possible to
> add this feature or not? Based on the way a user connects to the cluster
> (client ... or telnet ...) it should be possible to detect a RF user ;)
> 
> So how ? I think some other's would like this feature also (some
> requested/asked for it already).
> Thanks and 73
> Jann
> 
> 
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