Re: [VM] imap-ssh and passwords

[Uday Reddy]

Matthew Vernon writes:

> I'm not sure I agree that password-based authentication is inherently 
> less secure than public-key-based authentication, but that's getting 
> rather off-topic, isn't it? I don't think password-based ssh logins are 
> so dreadful an idea that VM should not support them as a policy issue or 
> anything like that.

No, we don't have any policy that VM should not support it.  That is the way
Kyle Jones designed it.  I don't know how easy or hard it might be to add
password-based SSH authentication.  If anybody is able to work on it and
contribute a patch, I will be happy to incorporate it.

> The host concerned does not support imap/ssl, and has no plans to do so.

That is ok.  But I have mentioned the solution of ssh tunneling.  Can you
try that and see if that does the job for you?

Cheers,
Uday