pop_auth(1)

✨ pop_auth — a lil page from the User's Manual ✨

okay so bestie, this is pop_auth(1) and it's giving "tiny tool, big responsibility" 💅 let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pop_auth — set an user's APOP secret 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pop_auth [-a] [! | name ...]

that's the whole vibe. short, sweet, iconic 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, pop_auth asks the user for their APOP secret and then stores that secret, after encryption, in ~/.spop3d. ✨

⚠️ bestie listen. the encryption used here is very weak and it only protects you from a curious system administrator who accidentally peeks at the ~/.spop3d file. that's literally it. that's the whole security model. 😭

🚨 DO NOT use your account password as the APOP secret!!! like, for real for real, don't. no cap. 🙈

pop_auth will set the APOP secret for all the maildrop names you specify on the command line. and yes, there's a special ! name you can use to specify your default maildrop — it's the main character of maildrop names ngl 👑

and if you call it with no arguments at all? pop_auth will set the APOP secret for the default maildrop. easy. lowkey convenient. 🌈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a — set the same APOP secret for all maildrops defined in ~/.spop3d. one secret to rule them all, periodt ✨

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• ~/.spop3d — the user configuration file. this is where the APOP secret gets written. 🍓

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• solid-pop3d(8)
• spop3d.conf(5)
• dot-spop3d(5)

go read those too, bestie, they're the supporting cast 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jerzy Balamut <jurekb@dione.ids.pl> — thank you for your service, legend 🫡💜

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and that's a wrap on the Unix era, OCTOBER 1999 edition of pop_auth(1) 🧚 stay encrypted (kinda), stay slaying, and never ever use your account password as your APOP secret 💖✨