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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:02:04 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Trevin Chow" <tmchow@sfu.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Passwordless Pine?
Message-ID:  <002f01c13cda$6599cd40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010913155418.W838-100000@benny.geektank.org>

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Does Pine work properly with SSH _without_ it being passwordless?
(ie: the normal SSH way?) 

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Trevin Chow
>Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:57 PM
>To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Passwordless Pine?
>
>
>I have succesfully implement public/private SSH keys to allow passwordless
>SSH connectiosn between 2 hosts.  I want to also allow for passwordless
>IMAP connections via SSH in pine between one of the hosts to the other.  I
>found this on teh net and thought it woudl be pretty easy:
>
>http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/1999.12/msg00170.html
>
>However, whenever I load up pine and try to connect via IMAP, it gives me
>a timeout message and then prompts me for my password.
>
>I have a feeling it has to do with this configuration line in .pinerc:
>
>-----------------
># Sets the format of the command used to open a UNIX secure
># shell connection.  The default is "%s %s -l %s exec /etc/r%sd"
># NOTE: the 4 (four) "%s" entries MUST exist in the provided command
># where the first is for the command's path, the second is for the
># host to connect to, the third is for the user to connect as, and the
># fourth is for the connection method (typically "imap")
>ssh-command=%s %s -q -l %s exec /etc/r%sd
>-----------------
>
>I have no idea if that command should be altered or not..any ideas anyone?
>
>
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