[Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Jan 19 16:56:21 EET 2006


On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 11:14, Simon Waters wrote:
> On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Login user doesn't exist: dovecot
> >
> > Advice, please?
>
> The users are created by Debian when it installs the package, because
> the package maintainer takes care of these details.
>
> If you build from source you'll need to add the relevant users, using
> "adduser" as per the documentation.

That makes sense.  When I compiled the alpha release it was to update an 
already installed 0.99.14, so the user would have been there.

Now - could you please point me at the documentation for this?  I 
thought I had grabbed all relevant docs, but I seem to have missed 
something.  Chris says that it should be "an unprivileged local user", 
but I'm unclear exactly what that implies - in exactly how it differs 
from a normal user.  I need the details, such as whether it needs 
specific UID, group, or password.

From your reply I'm sure this must all be documented somewhere, but 
where?

Thanks

Anne


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