Why does doveadm always run doveconf?

EML sa212+dovecot at cyconix.com
Thu Jan 19 10:50:41 UTC 2023



On 18/01/2023 22:01, Bert Van de Poel wrote:

> I was quite surprised to find that doveadm requires 
> quite broad privileges (in my case root privileges) to function 
> properly. 

This is, I think, a "feature" that was introduced in 2.3. It can make 
life difficult. There's a message somewhere on the mailing list 
describing this, but I can't currently find it. The OP wanted his users 
to be able to set up something, but found that they couldn't.


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