$Id: README,v 1.2 2005/04/17 07:42:26 trockij Exp $ This is a "moncmd" interface to a SkyTel 2-way pager. It utilizes procmail filters and password authentication to do its trick. I would not call this a "secure" authentication mechanism, but in Marcus Ranum-speak it is "really nice". Use at your own risk. It would be even more "really nice" if this did SecureID or S/Key. Also keep in mind that all queries and all results pass through the Great Wide Internet to get back to your pager. INSTALLATION 1. Do this from the /usr/doc/mon/examples directory: mkdir ~/.skytel chmod 0700 ~/.skytel cp skymon.allow ~/.skytel/allow 2. Create an encrypted password using the following Perl snippet, substituting "password" with the password that you want, and "salt" with a *2-letter* salt. perl -e 'print crypt("password", "salt"), "\n"' > ~/.skytel/password chmod 0600 password 3. Add the contents of the "skymon.procmail" file to your .procmailrc. OPERATION Commands are sent via email with the following format: /password:command Commands are the following, and can only be used if they exist in the "allow" file: eh enable host es enable service ew enable watch dh host reason disable host ds watch service reason disable service dw watch reason disable watch lf list failures ld list disabled The idea behind the brevity is that it's a pain to compose messages on that silly little keypad. --------------------- Jim Trocki trockij@arctic.org