On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jeff Dilcher wrote:
> I am thinking of setting up Fetchmail to reqularly check an ISP
> for mail within an SSH session.
> I would like to have happen without me having to type in a
> password at any point.
I don't know how it interacts with SSH (or with your security practices),
but you can embed your password in a personal '~/.fetchmailrc' so you are
not prompted. It's in clear, so watch the permissions, naturally. Ditto
for a global 'fetchmailrc' used to suck mail for multiple users.
(Root-access only on that one I assume.)
John Mills
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TGA Technologies, Inc.
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