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Re: Question about security



Small note: Allow me to point out that forwarding port 21
is kind of useless unless you're using passive mode.

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> Since T2's admins would not install a secure pop3/imap/anything server on
> T2 I use the less elegant solution of opening a ssh connection to T2 with
> forwarding of t2:110 to localhost:20110 . If you do that you may also
> consider forwarding t2:21  and maybe others. (Actually - I use imap, so I
> forward t2:143 to localhost:20143). Note that this solution also applies
> to windows users (if they use scrt/ttssh to open a ssh connection).
> 
> Then I simply have to tell my client to query on localhost:20143 instead
> of t2[:143]
> 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> 
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) wrote:
> 
> > Till now I wasn't worried about security at all, but recently
> > some things happened that changed my mind, and I decided to secure my
> > system. I installed ssh/ssh2, and almost succeded configuring it (couldn't
> > they just do the 2 versions more compatible?). But the real challenge is -
> > "How the hell do I prevent from my fetchmail (for example) to send
> > my plain user/password over the network every 5 minutes?" Are there
> > any other ways of secure mail-downloading? Is there SSLed POP or smth?
> > The solution should be supported by the server (which I have no control
> > of, and right now it is Technion's T2 server). But any tips for future use
> > (when I move out from T2) are welcome as well.
> >
> >                               Thank you in advance,
> >                                       Dmitry Fink
> >
> >
> >
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