Re: security of proxy authentication

> On Fri, 14 May 1999, Peter Polkinghorne wrote:
>
> > We have 20,000 users - so a separte password for web access is not on.
>
> Why not? 20K passwords can be stored in some kind of a fast search tree
> using less than 2MB of RAM.
>
> Alex.
>
>
Sorry - I was not clear - it is not the quantity of storage, it is the
administration overhead - users forget, have to be told new passwords,
be able to change.

All this is possible - just would be nice to have one password that can be used
securely ...

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