Subject: Automatic login for Pine

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Pyne)
Date: 24 Jul 1995 23:44:46 GMT

I am currently using Pine under Unix to log on to another Unix machine on 
our network to collect mail.  The other machine is running as a IMAP 
server.
It there any way to automatically send the username and password in the 
similiar way as an 'rlogin' so Pine doesn't have to prompt you for this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jonathan

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 09:15:54 +0100 (BST)

Before Pine prompts you to enter a username and password it first tries 
to use the "rsh" mechanism to fire up the /etc/rimapd program.  If 
successful a pre-authenticated session is started (validated because of 
the rsh used to start it up).

So on the IMAP server machine simply make /etc/rimapd a symbolic link 
pointing at the real IMAP daemon program.

Obviously you'll also need to be able to rsh to the host, so may need to 
set up a .rhosts file (per user) or a global hosts.equiv file to allow 
rsh type access to the server machine.

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:08:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (Mike Brudenell) writes:

Hmm.  After creating the symlink (I already had rsh authentication),
PC-Pine still doesn't preauthenticate me.  Does anyone have additional
suggestions?

Thanks,
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:22:35 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Rick Troxel wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:08:36 GMT
> From: Rick Troxel <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Automatic login for Pine
>

PC-Pine doesn't use pre-authentication, since it is so easy to forge you
ID on most PCs...

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