Subject: PC-Pine will not allow root access remotely

From: [email-masked] (Joe Morris)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 18:18:55 GMT

Trying to setup additional inbox folders to access hosts that have mail 
owned by root.  As I setup the incoming folder, it prompts me for the 
username.  I type over my own and enter root and then the password.  I ta 
always comes back and tells me "Bad login user name and/or password".  what 
am I doing wrong?  I access these hosts just fine with my regular ID -- just 
can't do it as root.

I'm running PC-Pine 3.93 on WinNT.  Latest IMAP servers running on remote 
hosts.

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Joe Morris - [email-masked] - http://sunsite.unc.edu/morris
OIT/Computing Systems, Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:12:14 -0700

imapd specifically forbids access by any UID 0 user.

On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Don Miller wrote:
> Hi - just a thought: Are you sure that these hosts will let you do any
> regular login (e.g. telnet), AS root, rather than logging in yourself and
> then becoming root via su -- most Unix machines are set not to allow root
> to log in directly from any place other than the console, and I suspect
> that includes an IMAP or pop3 session.  If you want to change that
> setting, and take the security risk, look in the machine's inittab file.
> 
> Don Miller
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> On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Joe Morris wrote:
> 

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