[Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 15:12, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>
> The uid doesn't matter, Dovecot just wants a dedicated user account
> together with a group, typically called "dovecot" that isn't used for
> anything else (and ideally shouldn't even have a shell or password).
>
> The Dovecot RPM sets this up with
>
> groupadd -g 96 -r dovecot
> useradd -d /var/run/dovecot -s /bin/false -g dovecot -M -r -u 96
> dovecot
>
> (you might need "-m" instead of "-M"; my useradd seems to need this).
> This assumes nothing else is using UID 96 or GID 96.
>
-m or -M seems to define whether it needs a home directory creating.  
I've assumed that it doesn't.  Correct?

Now I'm seeing

Can't use login executable /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap.login: No such 
file or directory.

It doesn't appear to be a path problem, either.  slocate can't find it.

Anne
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