{
  "draft": null,
  "doc_id": "RFC912",
  "title": "Authentication service",
  "authors": [
    "M. St. Johns"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "3",
  "pub_status": "UNKNOWN",
  "status": "UNKNOWN",
  "source": "Legacy",
  "abstract": "This memo describes a proposed authentication protocol for verifying the identity of a user of a TCP connection.  Given a TCP port number pair, it returns a character string which identifies the owner of that connection on the server's system.  Suggested uses include automatic identification and verification of a user during an FTP session, additional verification of a TAC dial up user, and access verification for a generalized network file server.",
  "pub_date": "September 1984",
  "keywords": [],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC931"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC912",
  "errata_url": null
}