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Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords
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Matthew Vernon |
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Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:14:01 +0100 |
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On 12/10/11 02:39, Tim Cross wrote:
With ssh, you have a number of different authentication types. The
most basic is just normal password based. This is also the less secure
method.
I'm not sure I agree that password-based authentication is inherently
less secure than public-key-based authentication, but that's getting
rather off-topic, isn't it? I don't think password-based ssh logins are
so dreadful an idea that VM should not support them as a policy issue or
anything like that.
However, imap over ssh is rather an older solution. Most sites now
support encrypted connections using TLS/SSL. This tends to be a more
robust and easier to setup approach. Maybe you could look into that
rather than using imap over ssh?
The host concerned does not support imap/ssl, and has no plans to do so.
Regards,
Matthew
- [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Matthew Vernon, 2011/10/11
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Uday Reddy, 2011/10/11
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Matthew Vernon, 2011/10/11
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Uday Reddy, 2011/10/11
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Tim Cross, 2011/10/11
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords,
Matthew Vernon <=
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Uday Reddy, 2011/10/12
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Matthew Vernon, 2011/10/12
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Tim Cross, 2011/10/12
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Matthew Vernon, 2011/10/13
- Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords, Tim Cross, 2011/10/13