[Freeciv-Dev] Re: single player and authenticating servers

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:36:04AM -0400, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> 1.  Allow guest users to have names.

this I think will cause more problems than it's worth on public servers.
but possible, you would need to send a separate field that tells the server
that you want this user to be a guest.

> 2.  Allow registered users to have an empty password.

this is bad, security-wise.

> 3.  Don't require a password from cmdlevel HACK users.

unfortunately, the check for hack happens well after a connection is
established.

-mike