Hello,
Thanks for your reply. I am may be a bit too lazy to establish a ssh tunnel at
each modem connection, but I am convinced I would find how to make it. That is
a good suggestion. I was far to think about different username and password for
ssh and pop, in m
y case that is all the same, that is a different situation. Both situations may
need different configurations. I would prefer a command to use on the remote
server than a tunnel. May be I could find a script to do it, I would prefere to
use the same code
as the regular pop internet server, that would make it esier for the clients.
The major problem is that then I start /usr/sbin/in.qpopper through ssh it run
with my user permission, not root, so it cannot access the password file.
Have a nice day,
Jean-Bernard
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:09:48 -0400
Daniel Senie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:10 PM 6/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it possible to use qpopper through a ssh connection ? Like:
> >
> >ssh my.pop.server.net /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
> >
> >I made a try and I have the impression I have to start with USER and PASS
> >commands, even if I am alredy loged throught ssh, which is in itself not a
> >big problem. The problem I noticed is with the PASS command qpopper
> >complains about accessing the password
> > file and die and the connection is broken.
> >
> >Any suggestion ? Can I do that with qpopper or do I need to compile
> >another popd, which one ?
>
> You're configuring a tunnel using SSH for the POP traffic. The POP server
> software (qpopper) doesn't have any special knowledge of this. To it, the
> POP session is originating on the end of the SSH tunnel nearest to it. So
> qpopper would still need username and password.
>
> This is as it should be anyway, I would think. Consider that you might have
> multiple POP accounts active on a mail server that you check from your
> laptop. You could use SSH to establish a tunnel to transport the POP
> traffic, then check email for the multiple accounts. POP server would need
> the username and password for each anyway.
>
> Also consider that in some server configurations, the login name space used
> by SSH and the mailbox name space used by qpopper might be independent of
> one another.
>
> Dan
>
