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Re: mandb wrapper scripts



On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:45:51AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:15:15AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:40:17PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > because we have native tools to manage authentification (setauth, rmauth,
> > 
> > Is there a reason people use the imaginary word "authentification" rather
> > than the real word "authentication"?
> > 
> > Just curious; I encounter it even in documentation that really should know
> > better.

Well, I don't know about other people, but for me it was just a personal
mix up with the German language (Authentifizierung). Never mind.

In the future, I will only refer to the "auth" server :)

Marcus


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