Re: Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementing APOP
Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu> Sun, 25 September 1994 22:06 UTC
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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@cac.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementing APOP
To: Glenn Anderson <glenn.anderson@library.otago.ac.nz>
Cc: Skip Montanaro <skip@automatrix.com>, ietf-pop3@andrew.cmu.edu
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On Mon, 26 Sep 1994 08:34:05 +1200, Glenn Anderson wrote: > Unfortunately it is technically impossible to implement APOP on unix > because unix uses a one way encryption method for passwords. This means > that the POP3 server can not get a clear text version of the password which > is required for the APOP algorithm. This is not quite accurate. It is not technically impossible to implement APOP on Unix, unless there is a requirement to use a UNIX login user's password from /etc/passwd. It is not necessarily the case that POP authentication credentials have to match UNIX login user authentication credentials (although that *is* what many POP and IMAP implementations use).
- Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementing A… Skip Montanaro
- Re: Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementi… Glenn Anderson
- Re: Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementi… Mark Crispin
- Re: Looking for Unix-based POP3 server implementi… Marshall Rose