Re: [cobalt-users] secure mail for admin

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, hweier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry, I know this must have been asked before, but I couldn't find an
> answer in the archives or the knowledge base.
> 
> My problem: How can I recieve mails for admin without sendig plain text
> passwords over the net hundreds of times a day? I know I could do it using
> SSH, but it would be much more comfortable using an ordinary mail client.
> Enabling APOP doesn't seem to help, because I'd have to enable it for the
> user as well, and I can't do that for admin. Perhaps there is a way to
> forward the mails to another user...
> 

Thats what I do, all my servers forward admin / root mail to a user on one of
the servers.

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Gerald Waugh