pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> Considering the recent worries about intrusion via VNC 
> 
> I wondered if it was possible to set up some automated tasks via email
> 
> I tend to leave my pc's on all the time 1x Ubuntu and the other Windows 2000
> 
> However this was just a thought and I am musing over the method to parse the
> email.
> 
> Thoughts ?

Others have already suggested using ssh (best idea) but if you're
looking towards email I'd suggest encrypting the email with some-
thing like pgp/gpg. That way you know it's more secure, I'd also
sign the email so that you know it's from who you expect it to be.
You could then use procmail to filter the email and send it to
another program to handle the gpg/pgp and conditional logic.

I had something simple that did this with just a simple password.
It was more of an experiment to see what and how I could do it.
I don't have the code any longer.

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