Re: Mail Fetch Secure 0.8 (Secured and Optimized)

[Konstantin R. <ic...@ph...>]

Sur Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:41:18PM +0200, Philippe Mingo skribis:
> >From the mail_fetch-secure readme:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
> In order to secure a little bit the system, pop3 passwords can be encrypt=
ed.
> The encryption key may be defined in to places. The first, and more secur=
e,
> is in the httpd configuration as an environmental variable called MF_TIT
> only accessible from the squirrelmail directory.
>=20
> the way you can do this from apache is adding the following directives to
> httpd.conf (supposing that squirrelmail is located at /usr/local):
>=20
> <Directory "/usr/local/squirrelmail">
> SetEnv MF_TIT "MailFetch 0.8 Secure for SquirrelMail 1.1.x"
> </Directory>

It should be important to note, that httpd.conf in this case shouldn't be=
=20
readable by anyone except root. This is why vadmin uses an include-file=20
for the httpd.conf.


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 0>  Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
/ )  Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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