On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Paul A. Thiessen wrote:
> Is it not possible to
> drop these privileges under win2000, or has it just not been written into
> system_login() yet for this platform?

That's exactly what logging in as Guest is supposed to do.

> Or, why not make it possible to run
> ipop3d as a "normal" user? I tried running it as this (just by starting it
> up via normal command line), with same "USER host:user" format, but it
> doesn't seem to work (ERR bad login) - I guess normal users don't have
> access to the net sockets or something?

Normal users can't log in as other users, not even if you know the
password.  It's how NT is designed.

> Why does ipop3d have to run as system in the first place when
> only doing this proxying?

It doesn't know that proxying is all it will do.

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