Subject: Re: none

From: Hernando Marceles <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 14:07:04 -0800 (PST)

Hello,
	I had a question about creating a password to enter my pine
session.. I've looked everywhere in the pine configuration and it does not
seem to appear.. when I go to setup it has Newpassword as an option but
when i  go to that option it states  sh: /bin/passwd not found also I don
not now where to compose commands for passwd do i compose them in my
.pinerc file or do i put an x next to something in the pine configure file
or do i have to create a new file specifically for my password within my
home directory.  I am very confused and would wish detailed explanation on
how to do this.. 

					Thank You..
					Hernando Marceles

P.S. if this is not possible is it then possible to create a lock mail
file so only a certain person can read the messages within that file when
pine is opened up.. I would really appreciate the help.. thanx again

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 08 Dec 1997 09:14:22 +0100

>> "HM" == Hernando Marceles <[email-masked]> writes:

[setting password]

Pine uses your system password. At the command line prompt, try saying
"passwd". If that doesn't work, you'll have to talk to your sysadmin.

HM> P.S. if this is not possible is it then possible to create a lock
HM> mail file so only a certain person can read the messages within
HM> that file when pine is opened up.. I would really appreciate the
HM> help.. thanx again

You can set umask. Check the pine archives, because this subject has
been addressed before, and in quite a heated manner.

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
"And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs
19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seem to
get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank."  (M. Welsh)