[Dovecot] Can't drop root group privileges

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 3 15:45:01 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:35 -0700, Jackie Hunt wrote:
> In our environment, some users are part of group 0 (system group),
> in addition to their primary group, so this operation is successful, 
> and thus we see the error about not being about to drop root group 
> privileges.

Usually the problem has been that user's primary group is the group 0.
There were 2 bugs in this anyway, fixed both:

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2006-December/006999.html

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