On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>I have RedHat 6.0 with apache, sendmail. When login with root and run
>Netscape messenger to download mail in local server, it gives
>Could not log in to the mail server
>The server responded:
>Bad authentication
>please enter your new password for user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>But when the same process is done with some other user it's okay. What can
>be the problem?
You can't use POP as root. It sends your root password unprotected over
the network. Most POP servers do not allow this. Red Hat boxes also come
configured to deny root access to FTP and telnet for the same reason.
You should forward root's mail to the human being that actually
administrates the machine. Look in /etc/aliases for a commented out line
that does just this.
Tony
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