[Dovecot] Root uid
Todd Burroughs
todd at hostopia.com
Thu Apr 28 09:26:12 EEST 2005
On Wed, 27 Apr 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
It's better to forward roots mail to another account. You really shouldn't
do anything as root unless you have to.
You can change this in the source, but I think it's a good idea to hard
code it so that you can't log in as root. It's easy enough to redirect
roots email.
Todd
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