From 7776e2819833e302f654f7bfd34ff2c26b63460a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:35:21 +0000 Subject: Update docs. svn path=/trunk/; revision=105 --- fetchmail.man | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 1e112838..5e4a610e 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -597,6 +597,14 @@ encouraged people to expose passwords in scripts. Passwords must now be specified either interactively or in your .I ~/.poprc file. The short-form -p option now specifies the protocol to use. +.PP +The reason the password isn't stored encrypted is because this doesn't +actually add protection. Anyone who's acquired permissions to read your +poprc file will be able to run popclient as you anyway -- and if it's +your password they're after, they'd be able to use the necessary decoder from +.I popclient +itself to get it. All encryption would do in this context is give a +false sense of security to people who don't think very hard. .SH SEE ALSO mail(1), binmail(1), sendmail(8), popd(8), RFC 937, RFC 1081, RFC 1082, RFC 1225, RFC 1460, RFC 1725. -- cgit v1.2.3