[imp] authentication problem in log files

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Monday, July 9, 2001 15:02 -0500 Andrew Heath <imp@heathsworld.com> wrote:

>  Jul  2 13:14:15 firewall imap(pam_unix)[14292]: authentication failure;
>  logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=andrew

Imap servers generally won't log in root (uid 0), for security reasons.
Does this one ever allow root to log in?


Joseph Brennan                           postmaster@columbia.edu
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)