Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:45:05 +0100 From: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> To: Nils Vogels <nivo@is-root.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: qpopper for root Message-ID: <448016B1.4000902@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060602121927.vuy4bm9haasw80cw@www.x-cons.nl> References: <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <20060602121927.vuy4bm9haasw80cw@www.x-cons.nl>
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Nils Vogels wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:12:45 +0100, Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> > wrote: > >> I am trying to use qpopper for delivering mail to my PC based mail >> client from a freeBSD 6.0 release system >> >> -ERR [AUTH] "root": access denied. >> > > Reading mail as root remotely is a Bad Idea (tm), because of > possible vulnerabilities. > > Try using your aliases(5) to redirect root mail to a user account instead. > > Oh, and don't log in as root either ;-) > > Greets, > > Nils. > > cleverly answered before my clarification :) This is within our firewall only. SSHD password login for the machine is off So I can log in only via the console or SSH with pre-shared keys. I have heard some reports about qpopper and security, but is it really so bad? -- Robin Becker
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