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Sequence numbers
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The idea is that whenever the user is queried for a password this
login/pw combination gets a seq-nr. When a slave needs a login/pw
it asks kpasswdserver and sends along the last seqnr it received. If
this seqnr is older (lower) than the seq nr of the login/pw
combination stored in kpasswdserver then appearantly the user has
already been prompted for a new login/pw combination since the last
time this slave asked for a login/pw and therefor it is not necessary
to prompt the user again but kpassword will send the io-slave this
new login/pw combination. If this new combination fails as well the
user is being prompted for a new login/pw combo since the one stored
in kpasswdserver doesn't work.
Let me try to draw the situation I had in mind when writing this:
Slave1 Slave2 kpasswdserver
Asks for auth
asks user for login/pw (1)
sends login/pw (1) to ftp site
Asks for auth
sends back login/pw (1)
sends login/pw (1) to ftp site
gets login error,
asks for new auth
sends along seq.nr 1
seq.nr 1 == (1) -->
asks user for new login/pw (2)
sends login/pw (2) to ftp site
gets login error,
asks for new auth
sends along seq.nr 1
seq.nr 1 < (2) -->
don't ask user for new login/pw
but send back login/pw (2) without asking
sends login/pw (2) to ftp site
Actually, I had mostly http in mind, and not so much ftp. In http you
typically try without password first, and only when you get an
authentication error you ask for a password. The above scenario is
then suddenly a lot more common than with ftp because it can happen
that you have 4 requests /io-slaves who alll discover at about the
same time that they need to have authentication credentials. The
above scenario (and the seq. nrs) is to prevent that you get 4 login
dialogs in such case.
Now the assumption in this all, looking back on it, seems to be that
when you ask for the same auth credentials twice in a row, it must be
that the credentials issued the first time where wrong, and you will
be prompted again. But if the user goes to ftp-site1, then
ftp-site2 and then back to ftp-site1 again, the credentials for ftp-site1
are still valid. This is why we reset the seq.nr stored in the io-slave
to 0 whenever the io-slave switches hosts (or logins).
Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
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