On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:24, Spectron International, Inc. wrote:
I have some questions about some parameters in dovecot.conf, I have them configured as this:
# User to use for the login process. The user must belong to a group where # only it has access, it's used to control access for authentication process # named sockets login_user=postfix
Don't, keep this as "dovecot" or something similiar. It really doesn't need any privileges. It just needs some dummy user under which it runs.
# User to use for the process. Only shadow and pam authentication requires # roots, so use something else if possible auth_user=postfix
auth_user only needs access to your user/password database. Probably something else than postfix.
It seems to me that all files created and used by Dovecot as long as they were created by the postfix user, they would be accesible. Right? My maildir shows as this:
drw------- 6 postfix postdrop 65 Jun 26 09:40 Maildir
so I guess postfix has full access to the maildir. Wouldn't setting login_user and auth_user to postfix let Dovecot access the Maildir?
auth_user and login_user have nothing to do with actually accessing the mail. You should preferrably have a separate UID for each user in the system. The UIDs that are used to access mail are specified in the authentication database. What are you using (auth_passdb and auth_userdb settings)?