POP3 , Inetd and Handbook.
Hello all. I'm sorry if this sounds too stupid or basic. I moved from 4.3 to latest version and it is working fine. On $.x I used to have inedt active since services are basic. On new system inedt did not active service immediately (not here at least) so I enable the service like ftpd on rc.conf POP3. I remember I read in the list that inetd is not so secure (am I wrong?) and that if possible should not be used but since I need services up I used that way. Now before studying what's the best way to do things I need to have a pop3 deamon running. I installed from ports popper but and qpopper but it does not work. What's the daemon for popper ? It will worlk if I enable it in rc.conf.? Inetdd. I want to learn all teh new features (left the path more than a year) so I do not want that you solve my problem, but if you can point me to where and what study to learn the changes done and the best way to have secure and working systems I would apreciate it. I am reading Handbook now. On Handbook. Is a PDF copy available?. Believe it or not sometime I can find access to the internet and I would like to be stuyding on those times also. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: POP3 , Inetd and Handbook.
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 01:48:22 pm Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I'm sorry if this sounds too stupid or basic. I moved from 4.3 to latest version and it is working fine. On $.x I used to have inedt active since services are basic. On new system inedt did not active service immediately (not here at least) so I enable the service like ftpd on rc.conf POP3. I remember I read in the list that inetd is not so secure (am I wrong?) and that if possible should not be used but since I need services up I used that way. Now before studying what's the best way to do things I need to have a pop3 deamon running. I installed from ports popper but and qpopper but it does not work. What's the daemon for popper ? It will worlk if I enable it in rc.conf.? Inetdd. I want to learn all teh new features (left the path more than a year) so I do not want that you solve my problem, but if you can point me to where and what study to learn the changes done and the best way to have secure and working systems I would apreciate it. I am reading Handbook now. On Handbook. Is a PDF copy available?. Believe it or not sometime I can find access to the internet and I would like to be stuyding on those times also. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez You can find handbook at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ Browser in the sub directories and download the PDF book for your language. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Why is it evil? -- http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: POP3 , Inetd and Handbook.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote: Hello all. [...] I moved from 4.3 to latest version and it is working fine. On $.x I used to Sorry dunno what $.x is have inedt active since services are basic. On new system inedt did not active service immediately (not here at least) so I enable the service like ftpd on rc.conf IMHO you should use inetd and tcp wrappers for every non-secured service/daemon such as POP3 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-inetd.html POP3. I remember I read in the list that inetd is not so secure (am I wrong?) and that if possible should not be used but since I need services up It sounds a bit bizarre, could you point to a therad mentioning that? Maybe it was discussion comparing it xinetd? The latter is not used by default on FreeBSD AFAIK, but I don't use sendmail either, so I guess it's a question of choice. I used that way. Now before studying what's the best way to do things I need to have a pop3 deamon running. I installed from ports popper but and qpopper but it does not work. What's the daemon for popper ? It will worlk if I enable it in rc.conf.? There are several poppers RTFM, the T there is for Their. Again, the POP3 service is not FreeBSD specific and there are thousands of sources, especially those of the opriginal projects ported to FreeBSD. Maybe you should look into dovecot (http://www.dovecot.org/). Inetdd. I want to learn all teh new features (left the path more than a year) so I do not want that you solve my problem, but if you can point me to where and what study to learn the changes done and the best way to have secure and working systems I would apreciate it. I am reading Handbook now. Inetd is of course not FreeBSD-specific. Again, there are zillions of references to the inetd service and tcp warppers. Rad them. You could start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd On Handbook. Is a PDF copy available?. Believe it or not sometime I can find access to the internet and I would like to be stuyding on those times also. The single HTML version could be downloaded to your machine by a simple use of wget: wget http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html Cheers, Alejandro Imass - Hide quoted text - Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: POP3 , Inetd and Handbook.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:48:22AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I'm sorry if this sounds too stupid or basic. I moved from 4.3 to latest version and it is working fine. On $.x I used to have inedt active since services are basic. On new system inedt did not active service immediately (not here at least) so I enable the service like ftpd on rc.conf You need to enable inetd with: inetd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf POP3. I remember I read in the list that inetd is not so secure (am I wrong?) and that if possible should not be used but since I need services up I used that way. Now before studying what's the best way to do things I need to have a pop3 deamon running. I installed from ports popper but and qpopper but it does not work. What's the daemon for popper ? It will worlk if I enable it in rc.conf.? I can't answer the question about the security of inetd but POP3 is pretty insecure as usernames and passwords are in clear text. You can find the name of your pop3 daemon by grepping the output of pkg_info -L qpopper for bin. Or there should be manpages for qpopper. Inetdd. I want to learn all teh new features (left the path more than a year) so I do not want that you solve my problem, but if you can point me to where and what study to learn the changes done and the best way to have secure and working systems I would apreciate it. I am reading Handbook now. Read inetd(8) and the manpages listed in the see also section of that manpage. On Handbook. Is a PDF copy available?. Believe it or not sometime I can find access to the internet and I would like to be stuyding on those times also. You can install the handbook from ports: misc/freebsd-doc-es for the Spanish docs. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
