ok, i've been at this for awhile; time to get help.
i'm trying to get fetchmail to send my password securely. this is what i've
tried for .fetchmailrc:
poll belial.ucdavis.edu with protocol pop3 and port 11110:
preconnect "ssh -f belial.ucdavis.edu -L 11110:belial.ucdavis.edu:110
belial.ucdavis.edu sleep 20"
password XXXX;
and:
poll belial.ucdavis.edu via localhost port 1234 with proto pop3:
preconnect "ssh -f -L 1234:belial.ucdavis.edu:110 belial.ucdavis.edu sleep 20
</dev/null >/dev/null"
password XXXX;
and a few variations on these two themes. i'm getting the same error message:
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.5.3 daemon
fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying belial.ucdavis.edu (protocol POP3) at Tue Feb 13 01:09:20
2001
You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase.
fetchmail: pre-connection command failed with status 65280
fetchmail: Query status=5 (SYNTAX)
i'm sure i have a few hurdles to jump here. the first one is the no
controlling tty one. can someone help me out with this?
i was hoping the password XXXX; would save me from having to type in a
password.
also, i feel ashamed to ask this, but what exactly is the difference between
ssh, ssl and kerberos?
thanks!
pete
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