[IRCServices] Problems With TimeStamping On Bahamut-1.4.23
Andrew Church
achurch at achurch.org
Sat May 26 04:40:03 PDT 2001
>As i believe how services timestamping works, is that if services go =
>down, for say, an upgrade, when they come back a few minutes later, they =
>shouldnt ask for a password,
This is wrong. If a server on the network splits and comes back,
users will not be asked to re-identify; however, if Services itself goes
down, all timestamp information is lost. Securely recording timestamp
information is a difficult task, and I will not be adding such a feature
to Services.
--Andrew Church
achurch at achurch.org
http://achurch.org/