Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-05-30 07:04, Felix Finch wrote: > Don't environment variables show up in /proc and ps? On Linux at least, not unless you're the owner of the process (or root, but root can already read the whole IMAP store anyway). -- Ian

Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-30 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200529, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2020-05-29 07:33, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone an idea how could I provide to the remote mutt session the IMAP credentials stored on my local laptop? If you can talk to the admin of the remote host, you can put the credentials into some Unix environme

Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-30 Thread Matthias Apitz
On Friday, 29 May 2020 19:28:26 CEST, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2020-05-29 07:33, Matthias Apitz wrote: Has someone an idea how could I provide to the remote mutt session the IMAP credentials stored on my local laptop? If you can talk to the admin of the remote host, you can put the credential

Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-29 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-05-29 07:33, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Has someone an idea how could I provide to the remote mutt session the > IMAP credentials stored on my local laptop? If you can talk to the admin of the remote host, you can put the credentials into some Unix environment variables on the laptop and mak

Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-29 Thread Bastian Tweddell
On 29May20 07:33+0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I often use mutt on some remote Linux host of my ISP about which I do > not have control as root, just a SSH login is provided. Due to this I do > not want to store the IMAP password in ~/.muttrc or where ever there in > plain text. > > The SSH connec

Re: providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-28 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hello Matthias, On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:33:41AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I often use mutt on some remote Linux host of my ISP about which I do > not have control as root, just a SSH login is provided. Due to this I do > not want to store the IMAP password in ~/.muttrc or where ever there

providing IMAP password to a mutt running on a remote host

2020-05-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I often use mutt on some remote Linux host of my ISP about which I do not have control as root, just a SSH login is provided. Due to this I do not want to store the IMAP password in ~/.muttrc or where ever there in plain text. The SSH connection is initiated from my local FreeBSD laptop