In some email I received from Bryan D. Boyle, they wrote:
[...]
> security schemes in use today. If they don't, then the producer of the
> software is not interested in business uses of their wares, and should
> probably concentrate on the education and non-profit markets where
> security is not a concern.
Just a minor point, quite a few of us who work in education orientated
environments care quite a deal about security and it is beginning to
become a concern for dialup-IP people too. Security is peace of mind
(when it works :-) if nothing else. Tell me any sys-admin who wouldn't
desire that.
However, depending on the application gateway, your level of `pain' may
be higher than others. For example, using ftp-gw from TIS is much easier
for 9/10 ftp clients than using SOCKS. (Exception being some stupid pc-nfs
windows version which had a very short limit on the username string and
otherwise didn't allow you to interact with the login). I don't need to
fiddle with ftp for Unix or DOS or Macs. But neither were any of those
clients originally written with this in mind.
darren
References:
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Re: FW-1, etc.
From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle @
maverick .
erenj .
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