.netrc: obsolete

David Vinayak Wallace gumby at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU
Mon Mar 12 05:06:33 AEST 1990


There's no reason in this day and age still to be shipping passwords
around in cleartext.  Better to use some form of encrypted capability
`tickets' a la kerberos (to pick an example).



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