[Dovecot] deliver to root

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Philipp Kolmann wrote:
>
>> deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as uid
>> deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: userdb(root) returned 0 as gid
>> deliver(root): Mar 04 16:31:31 Error: User root is missing UID (set mail_uid)
>
> This is part of my dovecot.conf:
>
> # Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above. This is mostly
> # to make sure that users can't log in as daemons or other system users.
> # Note that denying root logins is hardcoded to dovecot binary and can't
> # be done even if first_valid_uid is set to 0.
> #first_valid_uid = 500
> #last_valid_uid = 0
>
> Bye,

Anyway, standard security practise is to define alias (in aliases file)
to redirect deliveries to "normal user".

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