[Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

Ralph Seichter dovecot-ml at seichter.de
Mon Aug 23 19:47:26 EEST 2010


On 23.08.10 15:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Yeah, that's how I thought it should work too. Fixed:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/83f98d61bea2

I just installed Dovecot from Mercurial on the server running the dsync
backup script. I can confirm that with your changes the SSH key file can
be root-readable-only, which I consider a significant security improvement.
Thank you!

-Ralph


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