Re: [phpGroupWare-users] php groupware on ubuntu (Blocked, too many attempts)

[Chris Weiss]

On Nov 12, 2007 7:31 AM, Lim Tjie Siong
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> Is that impacted by ubuntu do not recognize the "root" user? I change the 
> modeof the folder phpgroupware already into 777.

the common unix system account names, including root, are blocked from
use in phpgw.  When using email, the account password is stored in the
session, which is easily readable by any script or cgi that also runs
under apache, and so early on in the project it was decided to block
the system account to reduce that security issue.  Unfortunately,
storing the password in the session is a nessicity for email to work,
all webmail have to do this.