RE: running dovecot under different user

2 Dec 2019


      Unless you run with linux capability net_bind_service. But I just found
this page[1] maybe those user options help.
[1]
https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless
-----Original Message-----
From: Benny Pedersen via dovecot [mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org]
Sent: maandag 2 december 2019 20:21
To: dovecot@dovecot.org
Subject: Re: running dovecot under different user
On 2019-12-02 20:08, Marc Roos via dovecot wrote:
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Did anyone ever managed to run dovecot as a non-root user?
basic: all ports below 1024 need to be setup from root unix system user
so yes dovecot can run non rooted if all binded ports is over 1023
if thats practical