Subject: Locking the mailbox using a password

From: Avinash Goyal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:06:09 +0530 (IST)

Dear Sir/Madam,
	Please guide me as to how to set a password protection to the
pine. I was unable to understand and locate the above topic in the help
text of the pine. I would we awaiting your reply. Please do get back at
the earliest.

Thnaking you,
yours faithfully,

Avinash.

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From: "Vani P.S" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:19:47 +0530 (GMT+0530)

hi ,

    go to main menu , press K , pine prompts to enter the password,
  enter the password , then it confirms to lock , press a Y(es).
  The screen remains locked with the password until you unlock it
  with the same password.

vani

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From: Avinash Goyal <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 15:28:23 +0530 (IST)

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Vani P.S wrote:

Hi ,
	Thanx for the message but I want to lock my mailbox everytime I
try to login. I mean whenever I login to my account and want to read my
messages, it should prompt me for a password to enter. If the password is
correct it allows me to access teh pine or else it should go back to
prompt or to the menu.
	I hope this is possible with the pine now.

Thanking you

Avinash.

 > > hi , >

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:55:55 +0200 (CEST)

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  >correct it allows me to access teh pine or else it should go back to

Hm? You should have a login prompt for your system, that's enough for the
rest of the u*ix world afaik ;-) Are you trying to prevent others from
reading your mail? Then you should look up a thread about umasking pine
temporary files in the archives (skip the last 90% of the thread, because it
turned into a full-blown flamewar).

There are, of course means to achieve what you want, but I'm not sure your
administrator would like those. CFS would be one that pops to my deseased
mind (Crypto File System). Maybe you could tell us what exactly you need
this kind of protection for. Besides, what do you want to "lock" the file
for? Or are you not talking of "locking" in the u*ix sense?

  >	I hope this is possible with the pine now.

Has it ever been?

Cheers,
Robin

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