[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0beta3: Auth master process is now running as default_internal_user

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 16 23:04:11 EET 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 21:45 +0100, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
> > 1) Create a new doveauth user that has read (but no write) access to the
> > files. Use doveauth for auth process.
> > 
> Right, if I'd like to go with 1) where would I put the 'doveauth' user in the config to have 'passwd' read with it? Looks like it is still using 'dovecot'  per default:
> 
> service auth {
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     mode = 0600
>     user = doveauth
>   }

Don't use it for unix_listeners. Just:

service auth {
  user = doveauth
}

service auth-worker {
  user = doveauth
}

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