RE: backup and synchronize to fastmail

[Christopher Warrington <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>]

Alejandro Jakubi <jakubi@xxxxxxxxx> @ Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:55 PM

(Looping offlineimap back in.)

On Sun, 18 May 2008, Christopher Warrington wrote:
>> Is there something wrong with the permissions=20
>> at your site too? Why can't you simply store the >> password in the conf=
ig file and theb set the=20
>> permissions such that only you* can read the=20
>> file?

> It is a problem of security under the threat of=20
> attacks. I mean both internal or external. This is=20
> a huge university. Just to put some figures, this=20
> cluster alone for this department of physics has=20
> about 350 accounts. And this university has over=20
> 3*10^5 students. I know that the local network=20
> of this department and neighbouring ones were=20
> masivelly attacked in the past several times.=20
> The security measures has been increasing=20
> constantly. Last year, when the system manager=20
> proposed me to use imapfilter to handle=20
> automatically the flood of spam, he advised me=20
> to configure it so that I do not store my=20
> password in the text configuration file...

> And here I have to handle not only this
> password but the password of my account on
> fastmail.

>> ** You could probably use some encryption to=20
>> get around this.

> Do you have some concrete scheme in mind?

I know that NTFS supports file- and directory-level  encryption. On Windows=
, the user's certificate store is involved, so simply by logging in sucessf=
ully the files can be opened. As I am not a Unix expert (nor really a Windo=
ws expert), I entreat this list for sugestions.=20

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Christopher Warrington <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>
Jones College, Rice University

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