Principal for service

Ken Raeburn raeburn at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 11 04:40:48 EST 2004


On Wednesday, Feb 11, 2004, at 01:47 US/Eastern, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
>

I just looked it up.  It's Appendix I of RFC 2228.  And it doesn't seem 
to explicitly address the case where the ftp key exists but the 
authentication attempt fails.  As I read it, you would actually retry 
with the host key -- but the word "may" is used, suggesting that 
perhaps the client doesn't actually have to try the host key under any 
circumstances....

Ken



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