Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:29:56 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: assetburned <freebsd@assetburned.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to let MPD check the password against POP3, IMAP or WWW? Message-ID: <991123400808112229q184bca5ao8403a24ff8a56df@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <36770826-27C1-4806-8355-D07758613B39@assetburned.de> References: <36770826-27C1-4806-8355-D07758613B39@assetburned.de>
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:20 PM, assetburned <freebsd@assetburned.de> wrote: > Hi > > I have a MPD VPN server and another machine which runs WWW, IMAP and POP3 > services. > > I know that I could check if a password is valid e.g. by writing a script > which calls a Lynx command. > > But how can I forward the password from MPD to that script? And I also think > that the password has to be unencrypted for the lynx command, so how can I > manage that? > > CU AssetBurned I run dovecot with MySQL database on one of my servers. Dovecot provides POP3/IMAP. I also have mpd5 on this box and I use credentials from the DB (which contains cleartext passwords) for mpd5 to authenticate, but I do it using a script which extracts the username and cleartext password and writes those to mpd.secret, and also sets the correct permissions on the file. It's a simplistic shell script, called from cron once a day. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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