At 07:11 PM 7/2/2000 , Tom Fishwick wrote:
Adam McKenna wrote:
[snip]
auth. Sure it's not totally secure, but I think it protects well enough
against the average user
that checks for new mail every 5 min.
Especially (as was pointed out earlier) since the item the password is
protecting was
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:43:56PM -0500, Troy Frericks wrote:
At 07:11 PM 7/2/2000 , Tom Fishwick wrote:
Adam McKenna wrote:
[snip]
auth. Sure it's not totally secure, but I think it protects well enough
against the average user
that checks for new mail every 5 min.
Especially (as
Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP, in which passwords are not
transmitted cleartext but *do* need
Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP, in which passwords are not
transmitted cleartext but *do* need
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Tom Fishwick wrote:
Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP
What exactly is APOP?
Is it supported by outlook and Netscape (ie typical clients)?
At qmail.org, I found :
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/4777/qmail/checkpw/index.html
This program seems to put the qmail password into the user's directory
for both POP and APOP.
Is the idea to allow
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP, in which passwords are not
transmitted cleartext but *do* need to be in a cleartext-list on the
server.
Is it supported by outlook and Netscape (ie typical
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP is an authentication mechanism for POP, in which passwords are not
transmitted cleartext but *do* need to be in a cleartext-list
Initially I thought I saw your point, but I was wrong. You don't seem
to be making any sense.
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 10:17:23PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
[this sentence originally came after the next quoted block]
If he can find a security hole that allows him to read files
that don't
Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 04:52:25PM -0700, Tom Fishwick wrote:
Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:47:20PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 12:53:04PM -0700, Joseph R. Junkin wrote:
What exactly is APOP?
APOP
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:17:05AM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 08:44:23PM -0700, Brian D. Winters wrote:
Make the list readable only by root. Now a local user effectively
needs root access to read the APOP secrets. Once that local user has
rooted the box, I don't
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