15 Mar
2023
15 Mar
'23
12:47 p.m.
On 15/3/23 18:32, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:46 AM Aymeric Agon-Rambosson aymeric.agon@yandex.com wrote:
Hello everyone, From what I understand of the documentation, it is impossible to log in to the dovecot server as root, or as any user not in the interval between first_valid_uid and last_valid_uid.https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/master_users/
I understand the most common method of authentication used by dovecot is pam.
Pam has no problem with authenticating root.
Postfix uses dovecot (and hence pam) to authenticate users
If dovecot won't allow root users to access dovecot services directly then that is a dovecot configuration separate from pam or any other authentication method.
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/pam/
Jeremy