[61554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omachonu Ogali)
Fri Aug 29 21:56:19 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:54:00 -0400
From: Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com>
To: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D11ECC24-DA4C-11D7-813D-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:15:49PM -0400, Matthew Crocker wrote:
> SMTP_AUTH authenticated users to a mail server. What I'm talking
Postfix will let you do SMTP authentication from one mail server
to another, and to address the person who said a school was brute-
forced, this is from server to server, not everyday-client to
server.
If you can't set a secure password on server to server relations
(it's not like you need to remember it, generate some random
concoction of 1-100 characters and use that as a password).
It's like the same thing as setting up a BGP password or a RADIUS
secret, once it's set, it's not going to be changed often (or at
all), let alone remembered.
