Guarding Privacy of Passwords/Messages sent to Mlhtimport
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Translation mails sent to mlhtimport at ffii org need to specify a user and password. These are checked and discarded before they are entered into the queue of the emacs-based mlht import batch processor. Moreover, the mails can be encrypted with pgp or gpg. We explain how this works.
Password Check
The program genba:/var/www/adm/bin/mlhtimport checks login and password based on the crypt-ed password that is stored in the ffii database. If the check succedes, the password is removed and the mail is stored on disk. If it does not succeded, the mail is discarded and an error reported.
Encryption Using GPG
In order to provide additional safety for your password, you may want to encrypt your message with PGP or GPG, using the public key of knecht which you must have imported into your keyring.
You would send an encrypted french translation restart0501.fr.txl as follows:
$ gpg -ea -r knecht -o - restart0501.fr.txl | mailx -s coding:iso-8859-1 mlhtimport@ffii.org
See
- $ gpg --help
for explanations of what the commandline options mean.
You can also register your own public key in the knecht keyring by simply enclosing it in a translation mail.
