Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods

From: Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods
Date: 2006-11-02 20:48:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0611021242540.1126-100000@denzel.in
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> Username/password is not acceptable in a number of situations. This is
> not intended to replace them. This would be in *addition* to supporting
> the current auth methods. I don't understand at all how you feel it'd
> be nice to have yet shouldn't be done.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

...I thought you said this _needs_ to be done - by using words like
"unacceptible" and "required" - and I disagree. There's a difference
between what needs to be done and what is desired to be done. Further, I
never said "shouldn't."

Richard

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