[imp] poppassd cannot change passwd by user, but the root user can do.

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Pradit Wattanasuwan <pradit@tubtim.cri.or.th>:

> Dear All,
>  I have some questions about poppassd to ask you. Why the user(not the root
> user) cannot change passwd by them self, but the root user can do?

Because you need root privs to change a password, and in most cases to 
read the password (shadow passwords, etc).

> I showed the content that I did on below.
> Error: 500 Username and old password don't match.

Probably can't read the shadow password file, so it can't compare them.

> If you have idea, please let's me know.

It should run as root.  There does not appear to be a problem.  It should
be run as a daemon running as root.

> Thanks,
> Pok

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