Users can't use Dovecot IMAP

[Dave Myers]

On 07/04/2015 05:59, John Lewis wrote:
> Every time a user logs into Dovcot's IMAP service PAM closes the session immediately after it opens. I would like a user to have a session open long enough to read some emails.
I don't know if it is still the case for no super user login to imap 
servers ?
> Apr  6 21:57:29 drakeclasher su[2346]: pam_unix(su:session): session
> opened for user mailtest by dictator(uid=0)
But according to this  old thread it would seem that dovecot is hard 
coded to not allow login as root (uid=0) to the imap server.

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-September/078467.html

Can't say for the current version, as the wiki2 doesn't currently have 
the config files <shrug>. I would be suprised if it had changed though...

The doc page : http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig

Search for : first_valid_uid


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