topic POP3 Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

POP3 Problem

Patrick Chim — Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:18:42 GMT

Hi all,

My HP system running HP-UX 11.0. I telnet to the system with port 110 and login root, it show the following problem

-ERR Access is blocked for UIDs below 10

and it signing off. But it works fine with other users.

Thank you for your kind attention !

Re: POP3 Problem

RikTytgat — Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:47:37 GMT

Hi,

I suppose you are using QPOP?

This is a security feature . This is due to a compile time option defined in
config.h which prevents privileged users, UIDs below 10, from reading POP3 MAIL.

Check for following define in the source and set to 0:

#define BLOCK_UID 10

Recompile and try.

BUT: think carefully if this is what you really want. After all, it is a security feature.

Bye,
Rik

Re: POP3 Problem

Shannon Petry — Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:23:54 GMT

I agree 200% with the previous post. I was running qpop for quite a while.

Before you recompile with config.h changed to allow users < UID = 10 to POP into the system I would think long and hard.

It is much easier to create an alias for root to your user account in /etc/mail/aliases and rebuild aliases than have your system compromized!

You can also have output from scripts and apps emailed to a specified "user" other than root!

Regards,
Shannon