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