Just installed the XR6 beta, and it's still got the broken password logic
problem.  This particular one, demonstrated on Thomas Waldman's own system,
gives a remote system a "password failure" error message in the
handshake, even though the session was successful.  Here's an example, from
my EMSI log (note the matching passwords are masked), just after this XR6
beta answered an incoming call:

-Answering (99/01/03 21:51:54)

-EmsiRecv  (99/01/03 21:51:54) {EMSI}{1:2604/514 411:200/102 1:666/0
211:211/15339 751:2000/300
751:2000/301}{-secret-}{8N1,PUA}{ZAP,ZMO,SLK,ARC,XM
A}{50}{InterMail}{2.29k}{Multi-Line}{IDENT}{[The WALL!][Midvale, NJ][J
Kershaw][1-973-831-9562][9600][H16,V32b,V42b,V34]}{IMREV}{000}

-EmsiSend  (99/01/03 21:51:54) {EMSI}{1:2604/416{at}fidonet.org
1:1/116{at}fidonet.org}{-secret-}{8N1,RH1}{ZAP,ARC,XMA,FNC}{1B}{BT-OS/2}{2.60XE}{
==! password failure !==}{IDENT}{[==! password failure !==][==! check your
setup !==][==! password failure
!==][1-201-934-0861][57600][Flags?_We_don't_ne
ed_no_stinkin'_flags!]}{TRX#}{[368FE67A]}{MOH#}{[0]}
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This particular bug was called to my attention by my NC, also running
Binkleyterm, who thought I had passworded him out of my system.  It's
apparently caused by broken logic in the Curmudgeon section, since the
unrecognized AKA's in the EMSI handshake are what's triggering the error. 
How about FIXING it already?

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