Re: PPP password.

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:28:37 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Matthew Hiller wrote:

> Adding to what's been said already - once you've got a network
> connection established, fetchmail's also good way not to send your
> password over in the clear. In addition to supporting kpop (which the
> Pantheon supports - I think Shawn knows the syntax)

You mean the syntax for the KPOP service format? It's actually moderately
obscure, for reasons so bizarre that Andy Newman told me that even *I*
wouldn't care about them. :)

The syntax is

kpop.pantheon-po@NET.YALE.EDU

regardless of which Pantheon PO server you connect to. Obviously, you
have to specify the right one, which will be <NetID>.mail.yale.edu. KPOP
runs on 1110. Whee... I think that's all you need to know. A common
error is to lowercase the realm (NET.YALE.EDU); it's case sensitive.

If you mean the syntax for the protocol, can't say I do. :) It looks much
like POP, if I remember correctly, except that you send a bunch of
Kerberos garbage to authenticate and then, when prompted for your
password, say something like

PASSWORD MEANINGLESS

but that really, really doesn't matter... ;)

Shawn