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[Russ Allbery]

Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Tuesday, Feb 10, 2004, at 21:48 US/Eastern, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It depends entirely on what your ftp server and client are using to do
>> authentication.  It looks like the version that comes with MIT tries
>> ftp/hostname.example.com and then falls back on
>> host/hostname.example.com if the former doesn't exist.

> I believe this is what the ftp gssapi spec says to do -- try one, and if
> it doesn't exist, use the other.

Ack, there's a spec?  Sorry, I didn't even think to check that; I'm so
used to nothing new about FTP being actually specified that it never
occurred to me that someone did the right thing and developed a real
specification.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>