From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 11:28:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E254116A42C for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Danovitsch@vitsch.net) Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B62143D53 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:27:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Danovitsch@vitsch.net) Received: from Tuinhuisje.Vitsch.net ([80.57.146.63]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20060602112752.KPZM10562.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@Tuinhuisje.Vitsch.net> for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:27:52 +0200 Received: from [192.168.87.6] (f23025.upc-f.chello.nl [80.56.23.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by Tuinhuisje.Vitsch.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k52BRl42030800 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:27:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Danovitsch@vitsch.net) From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" Organization: Vitsch Electronics To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:27:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <44801448.50009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44801448.50009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606021327.49588.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> Subject: Re: qpopper for root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:28:09 -0000 On Friday 02 June 2006 12:34, Robin Becker wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > I am trying to use qpopper for delivering mail to my PC based mail > > client from a freeBSD 6.0 release system > > > > -ERR [AUTH] "root": access denied. > > whoops hit the wrong key too soon. > > I have added user x and user root to the APOP data base, and have checked > that user x can do pop3 with the client thunderbird. > > However, I get the above message for the root account. Is there some > problem with root using APOP authentication? Using pop3 to get root's email means you are sending root's login password in plain text to the pop3 server. It's unwise to change qpopper to allow you to login as root. Simply create a "normal" user and create a mail alias address so that all mail to root gets forwarded to the normal user. Then setup your mail client to login to pop3 using the username & passwd of the normal user. Setting up an alias is easy. Simply add the following line to /etc/aliases to forward root's email to normal_user : root: normal_user After editing the aliases file you should run "newaliases" to rebuild the alias database. grtz, Daan