[Dovecot] need simpler instructions for user authentication
Hi all,
My situation is this: I have postfix running on a Linode under Arch Linux. A recent upgrade to dovecot broke the configuration. Now I get "Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)."
I do not want virtual users. I do not particularly want SQL or LDAP. I do have multiple domains. I do use Maildir. I already have SSL certificates for the server which I did manage to get dovecot to quit complaining about.
The documentation is driving me nuts. It keeps telling me about stuff I think I don't need. And I can't tell what I actually *do* need. All I want is for system users, including myself, to be able to get their mail.
How do I do this?
Thank you! David Benfell dbenfell@gmail.com
On 1.3.2012, at 3.40, David Benfell wrote:
My situation is this: I have postfix running on a Linode under Arch Linux. A recent upgrade to dovecot broke the configuration. Now I get "Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)."
You're missing userdb.
The documentation is driving me nuts. It keeps telling me about stuff I think I don't need. And I can't tell what I actually *do* need. All I want is for system users, including myself, to be able to get their mail.
How do I do this?
You didn't say what Dovecot version, and dovecot -n output would have been useful, but here's my guess: Add to dovecot.conf:
userdb { driver = passwd }
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:30:19AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
You didn't say what Dovecot version, and dovecot -n output would have been useful, but here's my guess: Add to dovecot.conf:
Sorry. The Arch Linux package is dovecot-2.1.1-3.
userdb { driver = passwd }
It *looks* like this worked. Thank you *very* much!
David Benfell benfell@parts-unknown.org
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