Re: Two-phase authentification?
Mutt wiki being http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttWiki? Also, does anyone have a sense of how secure/insecure aes-256 is? My limited understanding is it is pretty secure, but I am not a security guy or anything. -ben On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 03:28:12PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 18 Feb 2015, Ben Gold wrote: To encrypt the password I entered this on the commandline (OS X): openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out pw.txt -in cleartext.txt (openssl then prompts your for an encryption password) and in my muttrc file I wrote: set imap_pass = `openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -d -in ~/.mutt/pw.txt` set smtp_pass = $imap_pass Nice! If you have time to add this somewhere in the Mutt wiki, it looks like a good approach. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
Re: Two-phase authentification?
Aha! I'm sorry. I misinterpreted your reply. You mean I have to create an application-specific password to use IMAP once I've enabled 2-factor authentication. (I don't know where I got authentification from ... fingers on auto-pilot, I guess.) I've done this. I created an application password just for mutt that allows mutt to bypass Google's two-step verification. I encrypted it with openssl with my normal email password, so now mutt asks me for the aes-256 password at startup and it's the same effectively as typing in my email password once per session. To encrypt the password I entered this on the commandline (OS X): openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out pw.txt -in cleartext.txt (openssl then prompts your for an encryption password) and in my muttrc file I wrote: set imap_pass = `openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -d -in ~/.mutt/pw.txt` set smtp_pass = $imap_pass
Re: Two-phase authentification?
* On 18 Feb 2015, Ben Gold wrote: To encrypt the password I entered this on the commandline (OS X): openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -out pw.txt -in cleartext.txt (openssl then prompts your for an encryption password) and in my muttrc file I wrote: set imap_pass = `openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -d -in ~/.mutt/pw.txt` set smtp_pass = $imap_pass Nice! If you have time to add this somewhere in the Mutt wiki, it looks like a good approach. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
Re: Two-phase authentification?
* On 12 Feb 2015, Peter Davis wrote: I think I know the answer to this, and I think it's no, but just for fun, is there any way to use mutt with GMail's 2-phase authentification? (The last time I checked) GMail doesn't support 2-factor with IMAP. You have to set up an application-specific password to enable 2-factor for web and the mobile app, while still using IMAP. This isn't mutt-specific, it's for any IMAP client. References: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/WUaXHSdI3WM https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1173270?hl=en -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
Two-phase authentification?
I think I know the answer to this, and I think it's no, but just for fun, is there any way to use mutt with GMail's 2-phase authentification? I generally use mutt for another imap server, and use other tools for GMail, but I now have a use for reading GMail via mutt, and wondered if there's a way to do this without simply disabling the 2-phase authentification. The GMail app and the Web site will require me to enter a security code that's been SMS messaged to my phone, but I suspect mutt has no way to work around that. Am I right? Thanks! -pd -- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
Re: Two-phase authentification?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:17:00AM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 12 Feb 2015, Peter Davis wrote: I think I know the answer to this, and I think it's no, but just for fun, is there any way to use mutt with GMail's 2-phase authentification? (The last time I checked) GMail doesn't support 2-factor with IMAP. You have to set up an application-specific password to enable 2-factor for web and the mobile app, while still using IMAP. This isn't mutt-specific, it's for any IMAP client. Interesting. What I experienced is: 1) I attempted to connect with mutt, and got prompted for my password. 2) I entered my usual password. 3) I saw a long message flash on the screen very quickly. I could not read past the first word ... Warning. Then mutt displayed Login failed 4) I got an email from GMail telling me that someone had attempted to login, and that I would have to disable the 2-factor authentification to use this client Thanks, -pd -- Peter Davis The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
