Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> Our company just opened a remote location. We would like to give our
> employees in this location access to our pop server in the main
> building. Since both locations have Internet access with a linux router
> on both sides, it can easily be realised. Unfortunately, pop password go
> as plain cleartext over the Internet, which we I want to avoid. One
> solution of course, is to configure the pop server for apop. But this
> causes a lot of extra work. Is there any possibility to establish an
> encrypted channel between two Linux routers, such that the plain
> password could pass through this channel?
Sure. The quick hack is to run SLIP/PPP over a ssh link. A more
efficient (but harder to configure) option is CIPE
(http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html).
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