On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:21:42AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 10.12.2004, at 01:39, Marco Herrn wrote:
But I came to another problem when doing this. Is it the case that dovecot expects uids and gids always as numbers? I only store the human readable names of them, but dovecot complains with:
If they are names, how should dovecot translate them to numbers?
Sorry for my little knowledge about that, but I thought that the names should be enough. At least exim is capable of using user and group names as well as uids and gids. Do you know where the difference is in the way exim and dovecot handle this? I would think that exim just looks into the passwd file for this information (this is only an assumption). Is this not possible in dovecot?
From /etc/passwd? You might as well put home directory there then and use userdb = passwd.
I have virtual users, so passwd wouldn't be enough in my case. But each virtual user corresponds to a system user (not a 1 to 1 mapping, since one system user can have multiple virtual users). Or is there a way to get uid and gid von passwd, when getting the mail directory from a postgresql database?
Regards Marco
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