[Dovecot] dovecot performance

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Giorgenes Gelatti wrote:

> 2008/8/14 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>> But there are even some theoretical problems with preforking. For  
>> example
>> the most secure way to set up your users is to use a different UNIX  
>> UID for
>> each user. So for preforking that means your preforked processes  
>> must run as
>> root until they receive the information about which UID they need  
>> to run as.
>> And the code running as root should be minimized..
>
> True, but it's a common scenario to have thousands of users, in which
> case they usually have all the same UID.

I'm hoping that'll change some day in future when there are better  
tools to easily support UID-per-user. :)

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