[Dovecot] Rootless installation gets ssl-parameters.dat errors

[Daniel Bretoi]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 09:12 -0700, Daniel Bretoi wrote:
>
>> It would be useful to be able to run Dovecot rootless without having
>> to make your own build. Also, the location of the ssl-parameters.dat
>> would change per user since it's in a sandbox environment for us.
>
> I think one of the reasons I didn't bother to make it configurable was
> because there's really no need to create more than one
> ssl-parameters.dat file. In fact many servers create none, they just  
> use
> the the SSL library's default built-in one.
>

That's all well and good if you have root access to modify the  
permissions on that file which, with a rootless install, the  
possibility is very likely to exist that you don't.

Anyway, I can only suggest it be done.  :)

Thanks!

-d