[PLUG] Emaill passwd and username recovery

Russell Evans russell-evans at uswest.net
Thu Mar 6 23:14:01 UTC 2003


If they are using POP to retrieve their mail then a sniffer will pick up their
username / password. This would give you a list of everybody that has a working
username / password stored in their email client or knows their username /
password. 

Thank you
Russell

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:23:18 +0800, Billy Dimaculangan said:

> Currently i'm having problems regarding our email users. we are running RH
>  as our mail server and Postfix as the MTA, email users were given (by the
>  previous admin) an 8 character long randomly generated passwd.  my problem
>  is some of the users forgot their password, but i have no list of the passwd
>  given by the previous admin. as a result i give them new one.  I would like
>  to ask anyone if it is possible to print or get alist form our server of all
>  the users with their corresponding passwd?
>  





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