[Dovecot] Root uid

Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
Thu Apr 28 04:08:28 EEST 2005


Chris L. Franklin wrote:
> Whats the easy'est way to mod the source to allow the statis uid and or 
> gid or of the users be root ?
> 
> PS. I do wish this was an admin set-able option in the dovecot.conf

I thought the only thing stopping this (apart from good sense) is the minimum 
UID setting in the config file?


Honestly, why do you want it to be root?  It's NOT a good idea, even though 
Dovecot has so far shown to be very secure.

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Curtis



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