Subject: IMAP and pre-authentication

From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 1 Apr 1996 15:28:58 GMT

Who can help with IMAP annd pre-authentication ?? I want to make it do 
pre-authentication. so users don't have to type in the passwd again when 
they using pine. I already try to linux imapd to /etc/rimapd. no luck :(
Thanks

Alan.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:59:09 +0100 (BST)

1.  Make a link from /etc/rimapd to your imapd executable.

2.  Ensure that the executable is executable by everyone.

3.  Set up your IMAP host so that people can use "rsh" to it.  In practice
this means either each person needs to set up a ".rhosts" file in their
home directory on the IMAP server that grants access to any host they are
likely to run UNIX Pine on, or the systems manager needs to set up a
hosts.equiv file (does the same thing, but at a systemwide level for
everyone).

4.  Test, from another machine, that you can rsh to the IMAP server
computer by giving a command such as "rsh ls".  The success of this will
confirm you have got the rsh mechanism set up OK in general.

5.  Test, from the other machine, that you can fire up the
pre-authenticated rsh daemon by giving the command: "rsh /etc/rimapd".
This should give you a welcome banner.  Disconnect by typing "A01 LOGOUT".

Note that by allowing people to use pre-authenticated sessions to your
IMAP server computer you are implicitly allowing them to rsh *any* command
or session onto it (eg, "rsh runsomeverylongprogram").  We solved this
by setting the shell of Mere Mortal users to a locally-written program
that ONLY allows them to issue the /etc/rimapd command. :-)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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