[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> Mark Crispin <MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> 
> 
>>If it's just the AUTHINFO userid, why can't it be passed as part of the
>>invocation to the MODE READER server via environment variable or argv?
> 
> 
> Privacy layers negotiated by AUTHINFO SASL.  You're right that if it's
> just an AUTHINFO USER case, it's solvable, but it doesn't work with the
> more general case going forward.

Hmm, there *may* be a more elegant way of doing this (I'd have to ponder 
it some more to see if we could transfer the current security layer 
state between processes), but OTH if nntpd negotiated a TLS layer and/or 
SASL security layer before MODE READER, nntpd could stick around and 
proxy the traffic from the client to nnrpd via stdio or a UNIX socket. 
Its brute force, but it should work.

I might need another beer to analyze the performance ramifications of this.

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