Subj : Passwds
To : Oli
From : Rick Smith
Date : Fri Feb 09 2024 07:57 pm
Hello Oli!
Friday February 09 2024 22:00, you wrote to me:
Ol> * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'
Ol> Rick wrote (2024-02-09):
RS>> Hello All!
RS>> I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its
RS>> binkd or hpt. I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my
RS>> downlinks are subscribed to more than one. Can they have
RS>> different passwords for each network or do they have to be the
RS>> same? I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by making
RS>> his different networks have the same passwd but I have others
RS>> with different ones that work just fine?
Ol> Where do you see the problems, where do you get errors? With binkd or
Ol> hpt?
Ol> It shouldn't be a problem to use different mail / packet passwords
Ol> (the passwords you configure in your tosser / hpt config). The binkp
Ol> protocol does not support negotiating multiple passwords for multiple
Ol> AKAs within one session / poll, which can cause "weird "problems"".
Ol> Some nodes use hide-aka lines in binkd.cfg to only present one
Ol> specific AKA per poll. E.g.:
Ol> One AKA, one password per session -> no problems. Different passwords
Ol> could work in this case. But I think it's better to just use the same
Ol> password. Multiple passwords don't make it more secure.
So likely only their session pwds have to be the same?
