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   Hello Oli!   
      
   Friday February 09 2024 22:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    Ol>  * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'   
    Ol> Rick wrote (2024-02-09):   
      
    RS>> Hello All!   
      
    RS>> I have been experiencing some passwd errors I am not sure if its   
    RS>> binkd or hpt.  I host now 4 ftns on my hub and some of my   
    RS>> downlinks are subscribed to more than one.  Can they have   
    RS>> different passwords for each network or do they have to be the   
    RS>> same?  I know yesterday I fixed it with the downlink by making   
    RS>> his different networks have the same passwd but I have others   
    RS>> with different ones that work just fine?   
      
    Ol> Where do you see the problems, where do you get errors? With binkd or   
    Ol> hpt?   
      
    Ol> It shouldn't be a problem to use different mail / packet passwords   
    Ol> (the passwords you configure in your tosser / hpt config). The binkp   
    Ol> protocol does not support negotiating multiple passwords for multiple   
    Ol> AKAs within one session / poll, which can cause "weird "problems"".   
      
    Ol> Some nodes use hide-aka lines in binkd.cfg to only present one   
    Ol> specific AKA per poll. E.g.:   
      
    Ol> hide-aka 5:123/456@fidonet !*@fidonet   
    Ol> hide-aka 400:1/2@othernet !*@othernet   
      
    Ol> One AKA, one password per session -> no problems. Different passwords   
    Ol> could work in this case. But I think it's better to just use the same   
    Ol> password. Multiple passwords don't make it more secure.   
      
   So likely only their session pwds have to be the same?   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Rick   
      
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