<<On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT), John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> The trouble with this is that your password will be sent unencrypted
> across the Internet, very possibly hitting a sniffer or two along the
> way.  It's better to insist on chap and fix the broken peers.

Actually, no: the other side, which considers itself a server, doesn't
want to authenticate *itself* in any way to clients (since Windows
clients have no way to accept server authentication).  It's perfectly
happy to have clients authenticate themselves.

-GAWollman


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