Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:42:26 -0600 From: nathan <beemern@ksu.edu> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pop mail security Message-ID: <388DC462.C7E5BB7A@ksu.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251031440.58110-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com>
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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
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