[Dovecot] Couldn't drop privileges

[CM Reddy]

Thanks for your help.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> From: CM Reddy <cmreddy at armor5.com>
>
>  userdb {
>>   args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users
>>   driver = passwd-file
>> }
>> ...
>> Log information:
>> ...
>>
>> Jan 13 16:42:44 cmreddy-Lenovo-G500s dovecot: imap(armor5): Error: user
>> armor5: Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing GID (see mail_gid
>> setting)
>>
>
> Fairly self-explanatory, isn't it?  It appears your userdb does
> not specify GID for a user.  Either define it, or ...
>
>         In share/doc/dovecot/example-config/conf.d/10-mail.conf:
>
>         # System user and group used to access mails. If you use multiple,
> userdb
>         # can override these by returning uid or gid fields. You can use
> either numbers
>         # or names. <doc/wiki/UserIds.txt>
>         #mail_uid =
>
> ... if all your users share the the same GID, set it here.
>
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
>