[TriLUG] xxx.xxx.xx received a message withincorrectaurthorization code

Ralph Blach rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org
Wed Feb 18 23:20:41 EST 2004


Jon

For the same reason that ssh allows one to uses keys instead of
a password.  But if that is all thats available,  It will have to do
ssl will encrypt the password.  So thats about as good as it gets

Thanks
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Chip

Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 12:18, Ralph Blach wrote:
> 
>>Jon,
>>
>>No its the imapd that comes with redhat 9.0
> 
> 
> Yes, that is UW-IMAPd
> 
>>.
>>
>>Ok I solved the certification problem buy making pem files.
>>I now have a different question
>>I do I have different certificates for different users and
>>how do I allow only users with those certificates to attach.
>>
>>Ie, I would send the cefication on floppy disk, the user would install 
>>it and then would use it to get his mail.
> 
> 
> This is a non-trivial undertaking and not something that UW-IMAPd is
> really setup to do - or for that matter most email clients.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, it is do-able, but nothing I know of currently does
> this out-of-the-box.  You will have to build your own... unless someone
> from TriLUG knows of an application that does this already.
> 
> I'm also at a loss as to why you would want to do something like this. 
> UW-IMAPd comes IMAPS ready so it can use ssl communications with the
> client.  Then you  simply let the client login across that secure
> connection.  It's built into UW-IMAP and also most email clients, so
> that is an out-of-the-box solution.
> 
> Jon
> 




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