Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 16.9.2004, at 18:17, Timo Sirainen wrote:
The problem is you're trying to log in as user who has primary group been set to wheel (ie. gid 0). There's two possible fixes:
Although I don't understand why it would still say that error message with test42. I just tried and with me it gives:
dovecot: Sep 16 18:24:32 Error: Logins for users with primary group ID 0 (user cras) not permitted (see first_valid_gid in config file).
And after setting it to 0 it allowed me to log in..
Yes.. this is because it's not when a user logs in.. it's when I _start_ Dovecot. Hence the subject stating problems "starting" Dovecot.
I must admit, it's got me baffled... as I said in my original post - this isn't the first time I've set up Dovecot. Not even the first time I've set up a test series version. And always on a Solaris box. Yet this time it doesn't work.
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