On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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>
> Okay... this scares me. I enabled POP3 logging and started checking it and
> decided in a big hurry that I didn't like the log output as it gives me one
> more thing to make sure outside users (crackers) can't get hold of. Assuming
> I don't have any unusual settings involved in creating my log file, I have
> to ask if this is correct output:
>
> "ns1.domain.tld"     "domain.tld" "10.0.0.10"        "2002-07-10 17:04:51"
> "user"      "password"
>
> The above is what I get where ns1.domain.tld is my actual name server,
> domain.tld is my actual domain name w/ extension, 10.0.0.10 is the IP
> address from which the account was checked, the date/time is as I found it,
> user is the actual username and password the actual password. I can see some
> uses for such a log file, but is it possible without much trouble to encrypt
> the password or eliminate it completely from this file? It seems the
> potential issues that could come of this would outweigh the benefits. (The
> only real benefit I see to being able to check the logs to see what
> user/pass were used are to correct users who are mistakenly using an
> incorrect password...)

set the permissions for the MAIL_ROOT correctly and you're set



- Davide


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