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From: stjohns@BEAST.DDN.MIL (Mike St. Johns)
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Subject: BSD UNIX authd
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Date: 6 May 89 01:57:13 GMT
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Amazing --

I wrote the "Authentication Protocol" about 4 years back, mainly as an
intellectual excercise.  I was interested in trying various different
ways of tracking a "user" through a group of networked systems.  I
implemented (in PL1 !) a server and client for Multics, played around
with it for a while, and haven't done anything with it since.  

I've had occassional queries about it, but not in the last 2 years or
so.If I had it to do over again, I would have not bothered to put it
on top of a telnet like connection, or to worry about making it work
from a "telnet foo 113" type connection (the main reason for the wierd
syntax -- I was lazy).  

I'd be interested in finding out if anyone ever implemented this, and
what use they made of it.

Mike