Re: [Evolution] my ISP and my password

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:06 +1300, Victoria Spagnolo wrote:
> First, apologies for asking here, I have searched. Please, let me know
> where I should be reading or asking.
> I just found out that my ISP stores my password (POP account) as text
> and all the support people can see it and can change it. 
> Is this normal? If not, what is and what question do I ask an ISP when
> deciding which one.

It sounds pretty dumb but IMHO it's more important to use SSL/TLS on
your POP connection than to worry about the password not being encrypted
on the server. With most server setups, support staff can do anything
they want to your account anyway and having a non plaintext password
will not stop them.

I'm assuming that normal users can't log into the server and get a Shell
of course.

poc