Re: [Dovecot] root privilidge issues?

lists@netxp.com.au wrote:

hi all,

i am migrating from imap-uw to dovecot on a freebsd machine and i am getting this error message:

imap(phil): Oct 22 19:24:01 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges imap-login: Oct 22 19:24:01 Info: Login: phil [220.240.217.2] dovecot: Oct 22 19:24:01 Error: child 1019 (imap) returned error 89

You're in root (wheel) group with gid=0. Change it in passwd file to any other gid and add yourself in wheel group in /etc/group file.

Sem.