On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:56:59 -0700
Ken A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to use qpopper through a ssh connection ? Like:
> >
> > ssh my.pop.server.net /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
>
> no. using ssh that way doesn't give you the ability to run interactive
> commands on the remote host. It would be the same for any daemon that
> required an interactive session; sendmail, telnet, etc..
I give a more detailed sample of what I did at the end of the message.
> If you really wanted to do this, you could create a perl script that
> uses Mail::Pop3 to send the contents of a mailbox back using a single
> command line like:
> "ssh my.pop.server.net /usr/local/bin/getmymail.pl $user $pass $function"
> Function could be something like 'delete 1' or 'list all', etc..
> You could store the passwords on the qpopper server or pass them on the
> command line - either way is insecure! The script would have to handle
> all possible responses from qpopper.
> Not sure why this would ever be a good idea...
>
> Ken
That is a good suggestion, maybe the script allready exists (if you know one
such thing, tell it to me, please!) and maybe they are ways to solve the
security issues. I would just have prefered to use directly qpopper to do it,
just to be sure it have abs
olutly the good behavior for clients.
Have a nice day,
Jean-Bernard
Example (useless) of qpopper successfully used through a ssh connection
truite:~> ssh ernesto /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.4) at ernesto.ras.eu.org starting. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CAPA
+OK Capability list follows
TOP
USER
LOGIN-DELAY 0
EXPIRE 0
UIDL
RESP-CODES
AUTH-RESP-CODE
X-MANGLE
X-MACRO
X-LOCALTIME Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:42:44 +0200
IMPLEMENTATION Qpopper-version-4.0.4
.
EXIT
-ERR Unknown command: "exit".
QUIT
+OK Pop server at ernesto.ras.eu.org signing off.
Example of qpopper used through a ssh connection: the PASS problem!
truite:~> ssh ernesto /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.4) at ernesto.ras.eu.org starting. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
USER *****
+OK Password required for *****.
PASS *****
-ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "*****": Authentication service
cannot retrieve authentication info. (9)
+OK Pop server at ernesto.ras.eu.org signing off.
Example of sendmail used on a remote server using a ssh connection
truite:~> ssh ernesto /usr/sbin/sendmail Jean-Bernard.ADDOR
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
test ssh
Here I used ctrl-D to terminate the connection, the message has been delivered.
