Re: Proposed: task-secure-system package

[Michael Stevens <michael@etla.org>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Sean Perry wrote:
> > Don Marti has often joked about a task-no-clear-text which would remove any
> > package which provides a daemon sending clear text passwords.
> Don't you mean daemons accepting clear text passwords? That would block
> lots of stuff.. pop, imap, cvs, icq, irc, http, smtp, ftp, telnet,
> xauth (X auth cookies can also be considered passwords). 

For some applications this might be desirable.

smtp and irc don't _necessarily_ send clear text passwords,
although they may do in some configurations and uses.

Michael.