From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 15:23:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29950 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29924; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:23:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA11168; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA01373; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:21:48 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA13517; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:21:47 -0700 Message-ID: <36929E8A.1515AD1E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:21:46 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security References: <36925FC2.12EC490F@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote: > > Hi, folks, i am trying to increase my system security, but the main > problem i would like to solve is: > I DON'T wanna my user to send their passwords via a connect over > internet. for instance, when getting email they need to send it! Isn't > there any way to send this passwd encrypted? The same happens with ftp, > etc. For shell session i am using ssh, but how to do about other > services ? For email, require your users to use IMAP or POP3 with APOP. Both feature encrypted password access. For file transfer, disable your FTP server and make your users use scp. If they have ssh setup, scp should work just fine. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message