[DGD] Re: Net Security

[Jason Cone]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Cone <jcone at cs.tamu.edu>
To: dgd at imaginary.com <dgd at imaginary.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:53 AM
Subject: [DGD] Re: Net Security


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sten Lindgren <ged at solace.mh.se>
>To: dgd at imaginary.com <dgd at imaginary.com>
>Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:25 AM
>Subject: [DGD] Re: Net Security
>
>
>>As for services like SMTP and FTP they can be implemented using external
>>written programs that initiates a connection to the mud if it needs some
>>data from the mud itself (like acess permissions or whatever).
>
>
>True, but it makes things like accessing a Creator's priviledges to a
>certain MUD directory via a non-LPC program a real pain.  I've seen FTP
>servers written in Perl that don't require entries in the inetd sysytem
>config file, but they are nowhere near as flexibile as those written in
LPC.

Heh.  After reading my response to this particular part, I must admit I
didn't read closely enough. ;)  True, you could develope a program that
could connect to the MUD.  However, to the extent of my knowledge, it's only
possible to have 2 open prots without the addition of the net package - MUD
port and an extra binary port.  I guess it's possible to have multiple
protocols connect to the same port, but that's poor design in my opinion.
Plus, the idea of having programs that are crucial to the functionality of
the MUDlib *external* to the MUDlib doesn't make a lot of sense to me
especially when it's possible to have them internal to the lib.

I apologize for the misinterpretation in the initial response.

--
  Jason H. Cone
  Dept. Computer Science
  Texas A&M University
  jcone at cs.tamu.edu





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