[Dovecot] Setting up a 'rootless' server - user and auth_user cannot be the same

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 16 May 2010, Jason Ahrens wrote:

> 2) If I set the 'user' and 'auth_user' fields to my own login, it
> works fine (or at least passes 'dovecot -n'. If I set it to the

Hmm, "rootless" also means "no uid switching", right?
So all Dovecot parts must run as you (aka under your privilegues).

> 'cyg_server' user I get the error message about not being able to use

Can you switch to user "cyg_server"?

> the same user. I'm not really clear on the logic used to determine
> when a user can or can not be used for both. Is there an explanation

Maybe, the message is misleading and does not reflect the correct error, 
because cygwin is not a real POSIX system.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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