[Dovecot] doveadm -A stops processing at first uid<first_valid_uid

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Mar 4 14:51:03 EET 2012


On 1.3.2012, at 10.44, Joseph Tam wrote:

> but any doveadm command that uses "-A" to iterate through all users will
> stop processing at the first account with UID<first_valid_uid.
> 
> 	doveadm(sysdaemon): Error: user sysdaemon: Couldn't drop
> 		privileges: Mail access for users with GID 5551 not permitted
> 		(see first_valid_gid in config file, gid from userdb lookup).
> 	doveadm(sysdaemon): Error: User init failed
> 	doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users

And one more thing: Does it really even stop there? Looking at the code it's supposed to log an error and continue to next user. Note that it says "Failed to iterate through SOME users".



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