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From: gumby@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: .netrc: obsolete
Message-ID: <GUMBY.90Mar11110633@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 90 19:06:33 GMT
References: <45473@lanl.gov> <1990Mar10.143413.16539@eddie.mit.edu>
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There's no reason in this day and age still to be shipping passwords
around in cleartext.  Better to use some form of encrypted capability
`tickets' a la kerberos (to pick an example).