[Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Thu Jan 19 13:09:17 EET 2006


Do you have a "dovecot" account in /etc/passwd?. It needs to be an
unprivileged local user.

Chris

Anne Wilson wrote:
> After completely trashing my system a few days ago, I now have FC4 
> running, and have compiled dovecot-1.-beta1.  Everything is placed in a 
> different place from the debian install, so it's possible that I have a 
> path problem.
> 
> Attempting to start dovecot in a root console brings up the line
> 
> Login user doesn't exist: dovecot
> 
> Advice, please?
> 
> Anne


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