[Dovecot] Fatal: Running as root isn't permitted

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 4 03:01:08 EEST 2008


On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 23:13 +0200, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote:
> Well
> 
> I solved it. Altough "mail_uid = mailuser" is defined in dovecot.conf,
> i must also return an "uid" from the ldap query. Changing:
> 
> user_attrs = =home=/var/vmail/%d/%n,mailuserquota=quota=maildir:storage,=mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
> 
> To:
> 
> user_attrs = =home=/var/vmail/%d/%n,=uid=mailuser,mailuserquota=quota=maildir:storage,=mail=maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
> u
> 
> solved the problem. Hope this could be helpful for someone.

It was a bug, fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/1b15881ed93b

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