pop_auth(1)

pop_auth1

Set an user's apop secret

Usage

pop_auth [-a] [{! | name ...}]

Overview

Pop_auth asks user for his APOP secret and stores this secret after encryption in ~/.spop3d file. Used encryption is very weak and protects only from curious system administrator who accidentialy looks at ~/.spop3d file. Don't use your account password as the APOP secret!!!

Pop_auth will set APOP secret for all maildrop names specified in the command line. You can use the special ! name to specify your default maildrop. If called without any arguments, pop_auth will set APOP secret for the default maildrop.

Options

-a

Set the same APOP secret for all maildrops definied in ~/.spop3d

Files

~/.spop3d

User configuration file. APOP secret is written here.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0–8
  5. 9–13

-a since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

Author

Jerzy Balamut <[email protected]>

From solid-pop3d 0.15-31 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.