I just know that SRA stands for "Secure RPC Authentication".

Thank you for your kind information :)

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Name:Tomofumi Hayashi
E-Mail Address: tom.hayashi@alaxala.com
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At Thu, 18 May 2006 22:19:10 -0700,
John Nemeth wrote:
> On Oct 9,  6:27am, Tomofumi Hayashi wrote:
> } 
> } In /etc/pam.d/telnetd (in NetBSD-3), there is a sentence 
> } "... using a built-in authenticator such as SRA." 
> }                                             ~~~
> } I think SRA is misspelled (may be correct because I don't know 
> } about PAM and security terms).
> } 
> } SRA is typo and RSA may be correct, isn't it?
> 
>      No, SRA is correct.  RSA is a type of encryption.  SRA is a secure
> authentication method.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from Tomofumi Hayashi
> 
>