[Dovecot] root privilidge issues?
hi all,
i am migrating from imap-uw to dovecot on a freebsd machine and i am getting this error message:
imap(phil): Oct 22 19:24:01 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges imap-login: Oct 22 19:24:01 Info: Login: phil [220.240.217.2] dovecot: Oct 22 19:24:01 Error: child 1019 (imap) returned error 89
when it trie manually logining in this is what i see
telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK dovecot ready. 1 login phil password 1 OK Logged in. Connection closed by foreign host.
any ideas?
thansk in advance
phil
lists@netxp.com.au wrote:
hi all,
i am migrating from imap-uw to dovecot on a freebsd machine and i am getting this error message:
imap(phil): Oct 22 19:24:01 Fatal: We couldn't drop root group privileges imap-login: Oct 22 19:24:01 Info: Login: phil [220.240.217.2] dovecot: Oct 22 19:24:01 Error: child 1019 (imap) returned error 89
You're in root (wheel) group with gid=0. Change it in passwd file to any other gid and add yourself in wheel group in /etc/group file.
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