[zeromq-dev] Is ZMQ_PLAIN authentication supposed to do anything?

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:32 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. By closed, you mean the connecting peer (client) should be closed,
> or the inner pipe on the server side?  What should be the user-visible
> symptoms of failed authentication, both on the client side and the server
> side, if any? I'm looking to add a failed-auth test to test_security, but it
> is unclear to me what the expected behavior is.  Is the symptom only that
> messages sent do not arrive, or should sending a message not succeed in the
> first place?

I think the net result of a failed authentication should be the same
as if there was no network connection; no pipes created on either side
of the connection, and no route to or from the unauthenticated client.

-Pieter