From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65729 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SASL related files in gnus/ Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:54:10 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87lk8vdv1p.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <54a15d860710312047x3cafbba2ke000af9c0f05c2a4@mail.gmail.com> <54a15d860711111704j33ec6452r7f860131f926929e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195426478 10093 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2007 22:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Daiki Ueno" , Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, miles@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14225@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Nov 18 23:54:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Itt2F-0005on-Qe for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:54:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Itt1w-0006cP-OA; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:54:20 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Itt1v-0006c7-Ez for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:54:19 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Itt1p-0003fv-4P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:54:19 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp1.stanford.edu ([171.67.22.28]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Itt1l-0004RP-00 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:54:09 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp1.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 95AE84BDC7; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:54:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.19.147]) by smtp1.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1D14BDCD; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:54:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 531D1E7991; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:54:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:46:57 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65729 gmane.emacs.devel:83585 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > > sasl-ntlm.el:;; Author: Taro Kawagishi > This adds the NTLM authentication mechanism to sasl.el. > What is the NTLM authentication mechanism? > What job does it do? > > > ntlm.el:;; Author: Taro Kawagishi > This provides the raw NTLM authentication mechanism, which is used by > sasl-ntlm.el. > We should probably move ntlm.el to lisp/net, but before deciding that > I'd like to know more about NTLM. NTLM (NT LAN Manager) is a password hash authentication protocol created by Microsoft and used primarily by Windows systems. It is being phased out by Microsoft now in favor of Kerberos, but is still used where there is no Active Directory infrastructure or for backward compatibility with older systems. It's primarily used for SMB, but Microsoft supports it for a variety of protocols, including e-mail (which is, I presume, where it came in useful for Gnus). -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)