Re: [Dovecot] ACLs, imap and launchd

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 12:44 +0200, Axel Luttgens wrote:

I thus tried this variant:

} else { /* try to use some existing user. at least osx launchd doesn't like non-existing users. */ struct passwd *pw;

  /* written that way, this could be extended to some other
  	candidate system users (e.g. daemon?) */
  if ( ((pw = getpwnam("nobody")) != NULL)
  		&& (pw->pw_uid != (uid_t)-1) && (pw->pw_gid != (gid_t)-1) )
  {
  	args[0] = t_strdup_printf("uid=%s", dec2str(pw->pw_uid));
  	args[1] = t_strdup_printf("gid=%s", dec2str(pw->pw_gid));
  }

}

I implemented pretty much the same: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/62b9661b4c7a