Subject: store password

From: "Iris Mayer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:55:58 +0100

Is it possible to store password in pinerc or anywhere else to avoid typing it in 
every time I start pine?
(yes, I know that this is a security problem ...)

Thanks in advance,
 Iris Mayer

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From: "Iris Mayer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:44:06 +0100

> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Iris Mayer wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to store password in pinerc or anywhere else to avoid
> > typing it in every time I start pine? (yes, I know that this is a
> > security problem ...)
> 
> I know it's possible in PC-Pine, but I've not heard of a way on a UNIX
> box.  In PC-Pine, you'd create a file in the C:\PINE directory called
> PINE.PWD and put your username on one line, and password on a second line.
>  After you log in the next time, it'll encrypt those within the file.
> 
works fine with pc-pine3.96 but not with version 4.10 :-(

Iris

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:53:41 +0100

> Is it possible to store password in pinerc or anywhere else to avoid typing it in 

Yes, it is possible to store password in pinerc. You must go: vim
/etc/passwd and look for iris.mayer. Then you c&p this into pinerc. Do
not forget to add "#" before line.  Besides which, pine does not
have a password, anyway.

> (yes, I know that this is a security problem ...)

(no, you obviously don't know that this is a security problem)

> Thanks in advance,

My pleasure. Would you now kindly notice that

a) this list is reserved for administrational problems
b) <news:comp.mail.pine> deals with user questions
c) your signature is waaay too long and does not sport sigdashes (dear
   list manager, please remove the sigdashes from the automatically
   generated tag line, prettyplease?)
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From: Shoeless in San Jose <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:57:21 -0800 (PST)

> works fine with pc-pine3.96 but not with version 4.10 :-(

Hmm..maybe I'll stick with 3.96.  4.x doesn't work on mine without
Win32, which I could never get to work.

Greg

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From: Michael Talbot-Wilson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:43:47 +1030 (CST)

> c) your signature is waaay too long and does not sport sigdashes (dear

Some news programs (trn) automatically add sigdashes if you have a
.sig so you get two sets if you have them there too.  So if you use
such a news reader you will probably delete them from your .sig. 
That problem would be solved if Pine, also, conditionally added
sigdashes.

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From: Art Greenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:30:27 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

> works fine with pc-pine3.96 but not with version 4.10 :-(

I beg to differ. I'm using PC-Pine 4.10 and that feature works flawlessly.

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Art Greenberg
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From: David Dyck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 06:50:51 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Iris Mayer wrote:

> typing it in every time I start pine?

I guess you are referring to the IMAP password, right?
 I was going to say that I found that it was stored in the dos
pine, but no in the unix version, but then your next post refers
to differing dos versions so you are not referring to the unix compilations
anyway.   For unix, I had a special case where I hacked through the
#ifdefs in the sources (for msdos tests near IMAP passwd stuff) and
enabled it in a special case.

I have since learned (from this list) that there may be other
ways if you administer the unix host that you are trying to get
your IMAP mail from that you can find in the tech notes I believe.

(there I mentioned administer and IMAP in the same sentence, so
I guess I'll post this after all.. :-)

It would be nice for some special occasions to be able to
store a unix IMAP password in a private owner or group only
readable file in unix pine also.

David

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From: Ken Woods <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:55:10 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robin S. Socha wrote: 

>c) (dear >list manager, please remove the sigdashes from the
>automatically generated tag line, prettyplease?)

Don't be a luser.
Why do you want them removed?

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Ken Woods
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From: Ken Woods <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:04:34 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robin S. Socha wrote:

> Quoting Ken Woods ([email-masked]):
> > Don't be a luser. Why do you want them removed?
> 
> Because *my* software is capable of stripping them automatically. Given
> that pine now supports automatic insertion of sigdashes, it is safe to
> assume that the people on this list will use sigdashes. Therefore,
> having two sets of them is, like, kinda redundant, n'est-çe pas?

This is kind of a moot point, isn't it?
Being as how they aren't there anymore.

bah-bah-bah

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Ken Woods
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:38:31 +0100

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