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 Message 8329 
 Alan Ianson to Oli 
 Mironet 
 11 Feb 23 08:19:56 
 
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>> ? 11 Feb 00:00:36 [78274] Warning: remote set UNSECURE session
>> + 11 Feb 00:00:36 [78274] pwd protected session (MD5)

> This means your system is sending a session password, but the remote session
> has no password set for incoming connections and returns M_OK 'non-secure',
> which gets logged as "Warning: remote set UNSECURE session".
> (a wrong password should return an error)

> It is not a password protected or encrypted session, even if binkd tells you
> so. It is a security flaw of binkd though.

Is that a misconfiguration at the remote end, there is no (or an incorrect)
password set?

Binkd should not log "pwd protected session (MD5)" in that case.

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