Comments on: Enabling plain text login for UW IMAP http://eric-blue.com/2006/06/18/enabling-plain-text-login-for-uw-imap/ Technology, Philosophy, and Personal Development Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:58:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Eric Blue http://eric-blue.com/2006/06/18/enabling-plain-text-login-for-uw-imap/#comment-143 Eric Blue Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:05:30 +0000 http://eric-blue.com/blog2/2006/06/18/enabling-plain-text-login-for-uw-imap/#comment-143 I have a slightly funny/coincidental follow-up to this post. I'm working on a development setup where my Apache httpd process is running as root (yes, it sounds bad but it's not) and I discovered that Apache doesn't like this as much as it used to. If you change the default user and group to 'root', and restart it turns out you need to set the CFLAGS env variable to -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE and re-compile! ;) Now, I definitely see that as a much bigger problem than the IMAP issue, but I still find the mechanism for overriding the (arguably unwise) settings a bit hilarious. I have a slightly funny/coincidental follow-up to this post. I’m working on a development setup where my Apache httpd process is running as root (yes, it sounds bad but it’s not) and I discovered that Apache doesn’t like this as much as it used to.

If you change the default user and group to ‘root’, and restart it turns out you need to set the CFLAGS env variable to -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE and re-compile!
;)
Now, I definitely see that as a much bigger problem than the IMAP issue, but I still find the mechanism for overriding the (arguably unwise) settings a bit hilarious.

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