On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:42:01PM +0530, Tusar wrote:
> Tusar>What is the best way to protect my users passwords from being sniffed?
> Tusar>Can a user use an encrypted tunnel to send the userid and password to
> Tusar>the pop server?
> This I use .. but for that u need to have an shell account on the server
> and should be running sshd ..
>
> defaults
> user tusarp is tusar
> no rewrite
> poll localhost with protocol pop3 and port 11110:
> preconnect "ssh -C -f tusar@server -L 11110:servername:110 sleep 5"
> password mypassword
>
How about using APOP instead of POP3? Is that not secure enough?
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