[Freeciv-Dev] Re: client/server authentication (PR#1767)

["Mark Metson" <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, ChrisK@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> The password should not be saved. You won't never autoconnect to a server
> which requires authentication.

Uh, I do that. I am in a Long Turn Civ game (see forums.civ.org.pl) they 
use a server that has some kind of auth patch and I think most of us use 
autoconnect scripts to log us on each day to make our move.

Their auth puts the password beside the username, separated by a colon. I 
put that into a commandline arg to my client, along with a flag that makes 
the client autoconnect (and the server and port and the no-sound flag 
etc), all inside a little shell script that I run when I 
want to connect to that game.

Afterall, the auth is not for the purpose of keeping other users of my 
console from logging into the game as me. It is to keep others at remote 
locations from logging into the game as me. So being able to script it is 
very good, please do not force me to actually type a password each time!

-MarkM-

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