[Dovecot] In-site migration from /etc/passwd to LDAP

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Maykel Moya <moya at infomed.sld.cu>:
> 
> El mié, 03-10-2007 a las 12:07 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter escribió:
> 
> > When you migrate an account also migrate the UID and GID to the user that runs
> > deliver.
> 
> AFAIK deliver runs under dovecot user. Documentation say that dovecot
> user should not be used for owning mailboxes.

"the user that runs deliver" and not the user who owns the deliver binary!
You've added some user and group in Postfix master.cf to run deliver. This
user must be able to access (rwx) the mailbox.

> Besides, I wouldn't like to change UIDs so I can go back with minimal
> effort in case of a problem with the new setup. When the system probes
> itself stable enough I will migrate them to a pure virtual mail setup.

Your decision.

p at rick

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