new authentication methods?

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

are there any plans for new authentication methods?

I know that there is Kerberos but setting up Kerberos is not an easy
and cheap task.  I'd very much like to use gnatsd via an already
authenticated ssh connection.  I have not looked close at it but IIRC
it should be possible to turn gnatsd into an ssh subsystem.

Another useful option would be a CRAM-MD5 authentication.  Yes, this
means plain text passwords on the server but this is still better than
to let cleartext traveling over the net. 

I can work on this.  What I don't know is the general idea behing the
AUTH command and the regular login.  It seems that AUTH is only used
with Kerberos - are there other plans on how to use it?


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner