[Theforum] Re: thanks

Ron Dorman rwd at csi1st.net
Fri Jun 14 07:37:45 CDT 2002


Dean Mah wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:07:56PM +1000, Lachlan Cannon wrote:
>
> > Dean Mah said:
> >
> > > 4) People (I hate to open this up to groups of people...)
> >
> > Not to be blunt or anything but.. why?
>
> Security.  These are real accounts on the server.  It's bad enough
> that the passwords are passed in the clear.  The whole point of
> ssh'ing into the server is to encrypt the session including login
> authentication.  Web mail bypasses that totally.

We run our web mail service through SSL via the Site Management Control
Panels.  How much would be required to set up the evolt.org server
similarly?

Ron D.




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