From: Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:58:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140796737.10452.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602232353.33538.bulliver@badcomputer.org>
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:53 -0800, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Michael Sullivan:
> > I upgraded dovecot the other day to 1.0.beta3 and I was altering the
> > configuration file trying to get it to work when I discovered something
> > disturbing: our passwords were being trasmitted unencrypted across the
> > Internet!
>
> Well, strait from the RFC we learn that POP3 protocol is plain text.
>
> Before settling on digest-md5 (or any other method) for authentication you may
> want to check that the clients you will be using support it. This
> documentation will get you up to speed on your options:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication
>
> -d
Based on what I read at the link you sent me, I think what I want is the
following:
CRAM-MD5: Protects the password in transit against eavesdroppers.
Somewhat good support in clients.
The problem is that the web site doesn't tell me how to create a
CRAM-MD5 password database...
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 19:36 [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions Michael Sullivan
2006-02-23 20:41 ` Ernie Schroder
2006-02-23 21:44 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-02-23 21:58 ` Ernie Schroder
2006-02-24 6:18 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-02-24 7:53 ` darren kirby
2006-02-24 15:58 ` Michael Sullivan [this message]
2006-02-24 16:35 ` kashani
2006-02-24 16:49 ` Mike Williams
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