From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 7:41: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skygod.cns.ksu.edu (skygod.cns.ksu.edu [129.130.61.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63420151D5 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:40:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Received: from ksu.edu ([129.130.61.24]) by skygod.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA37692; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:13:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from beemern@ksu.edu) Message-ID: <388DC462.C7E5BB7A@ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:42:26 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: pop mail security References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG WOW... that kinda sucks... in that case.. i'm just gonna disable logins for that user, so all it is is a mail account... and setup a different account to do all my remote admin stuff.. Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, nathan wrote: > > > QUESTION: how do i rectify this so that my password is encrypted b4 > > sending?? > > Under most circumstances, you don't. POP3 and IMAP4 send cleartext > passwords. Your only hope of encrypting the passwords (and everything > else) in transit is to tunnel the traffic through SSH, and this requires > an additional component on both the server and the client. > > Cheers, > Mick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message