[Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Aug 20 21:36:33 EEST 2010
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 20:07 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> dovecot: imap(foo): Error: user foo: Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root
> passdb {
> args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd
> driver = passwd-file
> }
You don't have a userdb defined or mail_uid/mail_gid setting..
> # cat /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd
> foo:{CRYPT}xxx:1000:1000:Foo Backup:/home/foo:/bin/bash
I guess you should add:
userdb {
args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd
driver = passwd-file
}
The error message is bad though. I'm pretty sure it was better in v1.2.
I'll see about fixing that.
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