On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Matt Alexander wrote:
> Is it possible to run it as user "m" and also do the normal
> authentication?

No.  Authentication is a privileged operation on most systems (requires
access to the shadow password file); and logging in is privileged on all
systems.

> User "m" will be the only user authenticating anyway, but
> I don't want other users to be able to access the mail for "m" if it's
> pre-authenticated.

The best that you can do is hack the code to recognize some password that
you wired in, and remove all the preauthentication support.

-- Mark --

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