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Re: [linux-security] Saving Passwords in Binaries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sweger)
Tue Aug 27 18:23:18 1996
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Sweger <absweger@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: Andrew Sweger <absweger@u.washington.edu>
To: Todd W Burgess <tburgess@uoguelph.ca>
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960821105908.26266A-100000@ccshst01>
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Todd W Burgess wrote:
> I have been working on a program which will check for new mail on an
> IMAP server...
There's no need to verify if the user has entered the correct password
to your new-mail-check program since the (possibly remote) IMAP server
will check it anyway and reply appropriately. Check out:
http://www.imap.org/
http://www.washington.edu/imap/
for more information. Look for information on setting up a
pre-authenticated IMAP server in the UW source distribution. This has
some security related side-effects, so read carefully.
You will no doubt want a user configuration file to specify host and
mailbox/folder information to check. Maybe.
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