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A Sha	Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:20:53 am Since Exponential uses an extremely insecure protocol for authentication (it sends passwords in cleartext), I am interested in authenticating in Exponential using an authentication method that is outside of Exponential. This would probably mean hacking Exponential to use this external source instead of using the method it uses now. Does anyone have any experience with doing this, or any recommendations about appropriate authentication methods? For example, would the Apache mod_auth_db module would work well for this? And does Exponential itself support using external authentication or would some hacking be required?

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Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:20:53 am

Since Exponential uses an extremely insecure protocol for authentication (it sends passwords in cleartext), I am interested in authenticating in Exponential using an authentication method that is outside of Exponential. This would probably mean hacking Exponential to use this external source instead of using the method it uses now.

Does anyone have any experience with doing this, or any recommendations about appropriate authentication methods? For example, would the Apache mod_auth_db module would work well for this?

And does Exponential itself support using external authentication or would some hacking be required?