[Psi-devel] account defaults don't work for google talk

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 3/1/07, textshell-I1QKlO at neutronstar.dyndns.org
<textshell-I1QKlO at neutronstar.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > I believe i recently added to that error message '(this may mean you
> > need to enable plaintext authentication)', so that should at least
> > help.
> >
> > > Can't this be negotiated?
> >
>
> The point of disallowing plaintext login is security, so no it can't
> do automatically the right thing.

Well I disagree with this only because you haven't addressed the
question of if it is possible to automatically negotiate the best
combination of security settings that will result in a successful
connection to a new account 99.9% of the time (and 100% of the time to
Gtalk since that's a huge user base).  I define successful to mean "I
can chat once I've gone online".  A security warning prompt would be
fine.  But aborting is not.

Sorry if that came out a bit stern, but I'm trying to straddle two
diametrically opposite concerns and it's a bit challenging.  :)

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