[Dovecot] deliver to root
Hi,
we use dovecot 1.1.11 on a RH Server with sendmail. Local delivery is done with deliver:
Mlocal, P=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=deliver -d $u
This setup works without issues for us, but mail to root has a problem with deliver:
deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as uid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as gid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: User root is missing UID (set mail_uid)
Is it generally not possible to use deliver to deliver mail to root?
Thanks Philipp
- Philipp Kolmann <kolmann@zid.tuwien.ac.at> [2009-03-04 17:02]:
This setup works without issues for us, but mail to root has a problem
with deliver:
Not an answer to your exact question, but usually, it's recommended to forward mail for root to another user, for instance in /etc/aliases.
-- Vegard Svanberg <vegard@svanberg.no> [*Takapa@IRC (EFnet)]
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Philipp Kolmann wrote:
deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as uid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as gid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: User root is missing UID (set mail_uid)
This is part of my dovecot.conf:
# Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0
Bye,
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Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Philipp Kolmann wrote:
deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as uid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as gid deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: User root is missing UID (set mail_uid)
This is part of my dovecot.conf:
# Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users. # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0. #first_valid_uid = 500 #last_valid_uid = 0
Bye,
Anyway, standard security practise is to define alias (in aliases file) to redirect deliveries to "normal user".
-- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@onet.eu "I have five dollars for each of you." -- Bernhard Goetz
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Andrzej Adam Filip
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Steffen Kaiser
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Vegard Svanberg