[JDEV] Account information storage, plaintext?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:54:12PM -0700, Justin Karneges wrote:

> Maybe the issue comes down to jabber:iq:register being incompatible with any 
> SASL mechanism that does not use plaintext passwords.  If we nix iq:register, 
> does the problem go away?  Maybe then the admin has to make a choice between 
> supporting anonymous registrations vs having a more-secure system.

Maybe there is a good reason why user registration occurs outside 
the protocol in other systems. I think in-band registration is fine for
registering with components, but doesn't make sense for registering your
main IM account.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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