[Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot LDA / Postfix

Peter Fern dovecot at obfusc8.org
Mon Jun 19 13:07:57 EEST 2006


As Timo said, this has been fixed in CVS, will be in the next release. 
A patch to make this work quickly is in my post from a couple of days ago...

Dominique Feyer wrote:
> userdb query return correct UID/GID, I test this before. The log show
> the correct UID/GID.
>
> I have "Fatal: Running as root isn't permitted" only if I had setuid bit
> to deliver.
>
> I use pgsql for userdb
>
> Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 à 21:17 +0300, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>   
>> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:57 +0200, Dominique Feyer wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> The log is really useful ;-)
>>>
>>> ****
>>> deliver(info at lda.net4all.ch): Fatal: Running as root isn't permitted
>>> ****
>>>
>>> So it's not possible acutally to use LDA to deliver mail with different
>>> UID/GID
>>>       
>> Unless your mails are owned by root user, that's not really the problem.
>> Rather it looks like your userdb query returns user's UID as 0. I guess
>> I'll have to add some extra code to give nicer error message in that
>> case.
>>
>>     


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