Suggestion for draft-ietf-nntpext-base-02.txt

Edward S. Marshall emarshal at xnet.com
Thu Jan 8 16:16:48 PST 1998


On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Chris Newman wrote:
> I personally believe there should be a separate password change protocol.
> That way, a client which does POP, IMAP, HTTP, SMTP and NNTP doesn't have
> to have a custom password change command for each of those protocols.
> Instead you only have to implement it once.

As long as the protocol allows one to specify the service that they are
changing the password for. Not everyone likes to have one password for
all services (i.e. RADIUS, POP, shell, etc).

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