Mark Crispin said: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Matt Alexander wrote: >> * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY >> UNSELECT SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] >> Pre-authenticated user m localhost IMAP4rev1 2003.338 at Tue, 9 Sep 2003 >> 16:48:23 -0700 (PDT) > > This means that the IMAP server is logged in as "m". No login is needed > or accepted. > > Running the IMAP server as non-root is intended to be done solely when the > communications link deals with authentication in some other way (e.g. rsh > or ssh external authentication). > >> When I issue commands like Login, I get "BAD Missing command". I'm >> using >> SquirrelMail as my IMAP client to try and connect, but it fails with: >> Bad request: Command unrecognized: LOGIN > > You can't log in when you are already logged in. > >> Any ideas on how to get this to work? > > Run imapd as root if you don't want it automatically logged in.
Is it possible to run it as user "m" and also do the normal authentication? 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. Thanks, ~M
