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    From Rick Smith@1:105/81 to All on Fri Feb 9 06:28:00 2024
    Hello All!

    I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its binkd or hpt. I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my downlinks are subscribed to more than one. Can they have different passwords for each network or do they have to be the same? I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by making his different networks have the same passwd but I have others with different ones that work just fine?

    Regards,

    Rick

    ... Because of BBSing, reading and writing actually pay off!
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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Rick Smith on Fri Feb 9 13:40:16 2024
    On 09 Feb 24 06:28:00, Rick Smith said the following to All:

    I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its binkd or hpt. I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my downlinks are subscribed t more than one. Can they have different passwords for each network or do th have to be the same? I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by maki

    In my experience dealing with different types of inbound BinkD connections here, many weird "problems" with multi-FTN BinkD connections are solved the moment the passwords are set the same.

    Nick

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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Rick Smith on Fri Feb 9 22:00:04 2024
    Rick wrote (2024-02-09):

    Hello All!

    I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its binkd or hpt. I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my downlinks are subscribed to more than one. Can they have different passwords for each network or do they have to be the same? I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by making his different networks have the same passwd but I have others with different ones that work just fine?

    Where do you see the problems, where do you get errors? With binkd or hpt?

    It shouldn't be a problem to use different mail / packet passwords (the passwords you configure in your tosser / hpt config). The binkp protocol does not support negotiating multiple passwords for multiple AKAs within one session / poll, which can cause "weird "problems"".

    Some nodes use hide-aka lines in binkd.cfg to only present one specific AKA per poll. E.g.:

    hide-aka 5:123/456@fidonet !*@fidonet
    hide-aka 400:1/2@othernet !*@othernet

    One AKA, one password per session -> no problems. Different passwords could work in this case. But I think it's better to just use the same password. Multiple passwords don't make it more secure.

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  • From Rick Smith@1:105/81 to Oli on Sat Feb 10 09:54:38 2024
    Hello Oli!

    Saturday February 10 2024 18:18, you wrote to me:

    * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'
    Rick wrote (2024-02-09):

    One AKA, one password per session -> no problems. Different
    passwords could work in this case. But I think it's better to
    just use the same password. Multiple passwords don't make it
    more secure.

    So likely only their session pwds have to be the same?

    Yes.

    we are testing now, but that does seem to be the case

    Regards,

    Rick

    ... It was good BBSing with you @F
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