Re: SUN Internal Remote Access via Pilot

[Mike.Bellissimo@Eng (Mike Bellissimo)]

All:

I do use Hand Stamp and it works just fine. If you do not pre-enter a password
it prompts you for one once you've logged in. Simply type in the code your
enigma card gives you and you are off.

Another neat feature is that it allows you to configure up to five different
mail sites. In my case I have an ISP address with Pac Bell also where I've
pre-loaded my password.

Mike


> From osborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Oct 16 12:07:07 1997
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kevin Osborn - JavaSoft <osborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: SUN Internal Remote Access via Pilot
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Handstamp (another email client) has it's own stack, though I don't know 
> what it's scripting capabilities are. They may be more amenable to 
> changes though...
> 
> 	You have hit at the crux of the issue.. the Enigma challenge system we 
> use
> 	for dialin access to SWAN.  Palm, in their infinite wisdom (not!), 
> doesn't seem
> 	to have put anything in their PPP connection script language to wait for
> 	a string containing wildcard characters, or anything to display a string 
> that
> 	it receives from the remote end.  Obviously, this makes displaying your
> 	random challenge code very difficult.  (If somebody has found a way 
> around this,
> 	*please* pipe up).
> 	
> 	I've been working this issue in my free time (not very much) through my
> 	manager, whose sister happens to be a product manager for the Pilot at 
> 3Com.  
> 	They seemed to be interested at first in possibly giving us a patched 
> version 
> 	(apparently we are not the only company asking for this) of the network 
> 	libraries that would support this, but have cooled considerably on the 
> idea 
> 	because "we need to show a business case" (my manager's quote).  One 
> approach I 
> 	could try would be to have all of you at Sun on this list that would 
> like this
> 	feature email me, and I could forward these on to my manager's sister at 
> 3Com.  
> 	That may help, but I'm not sure it will turn the tide....
> 	
> 	The other option would be to write a HackMaster extension that traps for 
> the 
> 	event generated during PPP connection negotiation, and then provides the 
> 	functionality we need.  I believe I saw the event or events that do this 
> in my 
> 	last perusal through the Palm header files, but it would require a fair 
> amount 
> 	of research, plus development time that I don't have personally right 
> now.  
> 	Maybe someone with more time would like to pick this up? 
> 	
> 		-Guy Martin
> 		-SMCC IR
> 	
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