> personally i'm a big fan of radius for such applications and i would
> be happy to host a radius server and i believe karl had a server which
> could be used for authentication as well.  

yep. 
http://killdeer.tcwug.org/

it's there to participate in whatever authentication scheme we come up with.

Carl.
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