On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 14:39, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeff Barriault wrote:
>
> > I have a question. I have a RedHat 7.1 server on my network at 192.168.0.22
> > with Samba services running. How would I set it up to allow me to IMAP into
> > my root account and retrieve my e-mail from my Windows 2000 workstation
> > using Outlook?
>
> MAJOR SECURITY HOLE outlined above:
>
> This exposes the root password every retrieval
>
Any password exchange to a remote host can be viewed as a security hole.
That is where encryption comes in handy; or even better public/private
key authentication.
> All root mail should be forwarded to an end user account --
> indeed, forwarding it off box is even better.
>
> -- Russ Herrold
>
Adding a .forward to your Redhat server's root home directory with your
Window's Exchange e-mail address as the contents of the .forward file
should do the trick.
Matt
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