On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 15:12, Chris Wakelin wrote:
The uid doesn't matter, Dovecot just wants a dedicated user account together with a group, typically called "dovecot" that isn't used for anything else (and ideally shouldn't even have a shell or password).
The Dovecot RPM sets this up with
groupadd -g 96 -r dovecot useradd -d /var/run/dovecot -s /bin/false -g dovecot -M -r -u 96 dovecot
(you might need "-m" instead of "-M"; my useradd seems to need this). This assumes nothing else is using UID 96 or GID 96.
-m or -M seems to define whether it needs a home directory creating.
I've assumed that it doesn't. Correct?
Now I'm seeing
Can't use login executable /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap.login: No such file or directory.
It doesn't appear to be a path problem, either. slocate can't find it.
Anne
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