[Dovecot] okay, working, but not quite pretty...

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 21 17:31:12 EEST 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:25 -0700, Chris Lea wrote:
> Hi all. I got my previous problem fixed. Effective uid and gid fix in
> dovecot.conf file made it work. However, I'm still seeing this in
> my /var/log/dovecot.conf
> 
> dovecot: 2006-04-13 21:09:00 Info: imap(chl at iaminla.com): Effective
> uid=1000, gid=1000
> 
> The uid and gid *should* both be 1009, and I can't for the life of me
> figure out how to configure that. I looked around the list and couldn't
> find the answer. Help a noob out please?

It's always taken from userdb. Looking at the config you posted in web,
it first looks for "chl at iaminla.com" from /etc/passwd. If the user is in
there it's used, perhaps you didn't expect that? After that it looks
into the passwd-file.

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