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Authentication

This section describes the Palace authentication feature:

What is authentication? on page 39

The authenticator.pl script on page 40

Using a custom authentication daemon on page 40

Using authentication from the client on page 41

What is authentication?

Using authentication means you can have Palace closed server. Only members or 

guests who have the correct user name and password can connect to a Palace server 

using authentication. 

Clients will be allowed a variable number of attempts to connect to the server. After 

those attempts, if a valid user name and password have not been entered, the client 

will receive an error message.

The authentication features consists of the Palace server, an authentication daemon and 

a standalone Palace User Software client. To support authenticated entry, you must use 

The Palace User Software for Windows 95 version 3.3 or higher, or The Palace User 

Software for Macintosh version 2.4.3. Go to the Palace website to get the current 

version.

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