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. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.