From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 23:19:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA71537B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 23:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAH7J8f21630; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:19:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00111609300200.01787@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:19:07 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: gdunn@mac.com Subject: Re: Pop passwords (Was: Recent Virus Attacks) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Nov-00 Gary Dunn wrote: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> >> Both POP and IMAP protocols have features that let you avoid sending >> passwords in the clear. Fetchmail implements a fair collection of them >> from the client side. I'm not sure what cucipop supports from the >> server side. I > > Is there a simple way to determine whether or not passwords are going out > clear > text? Can I look for something in a log file? You can install a password sniffer to find out. Or careful use of tcpdump can get the same effect. But they are probably in clear text anyway. > -- > == Gary Dunn > == Honolulu > == Open Slate Project > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message