From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:53:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602232353.33538.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140723385.2914.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com>
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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
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 7:58 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2006-02-24 15:58 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-02-24 16:35 ` kashani
2006-02-24 16:49 ` Mike Williams
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