[Dovecot] seting acl for master user?

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 18.11.2011 14:34, schrieb oni-neko at gmx.net:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm sorry, but i don't really understand it the way it is written in the wiki, so i'm trying my luck here =)
> i followed the wiki for creating a master user (the non-sql-version) and i can login as another user via this master user.
> my dovecot version is 1.2.9 on an ubuntu server 10.4.3 lts.
> 
> what i don't get is the acl-setting, so that the master-user can access all the other users mails and folders.
> i made the changes in the dovecot.conf as written in the wiki:
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = acl imap_acl
> }
> protocol lda {
>   mail_plugins = sieve acl
> }
> plugin {
>   acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls
> }
> 
> in my case I only want the master user (called cyrus) to be able to do everything with/in all mailboxes, so I made a file /etc/dovecot/acls/default that reads "user=cyrus lrwstipekxa".
> 
> i'm pretty sure i'm missing something rather obvious here, but somehow i'm just stuck. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance =)
> 
> silvana

are you sure that you dont mixed up master users with acl

normally you use master user like described here

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria