Lda fatal: setgid (102 from userdb lookup) failed

[James Brown]

> On 4 Dec 2018, at 5:48 pm, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4.12.2018 3.27, James Brown via dovecot wrote:
>> Sorry if this is a nubbie question, but I’m getting:
>> 
>> lda(jlbrown at bordo.com.au)<4444><QFg5KRHVBBxcEQAAYBwt+A>: Fatal: setgid(102 from userdb lookup) failed with euid=501(jlbrown), gid=20(staff), egid=20(staff): Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process group set to 102 instead of 20(staff))
>> 
>> How can I fix this?
>> 
>> (macOS Mojave, Dovecot 2.3.4)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> James.
> 
> You need to tell your MTA to execute dovecot-lda as the target user as
> you are using per-user UIDs.
> 
> Aki

Thanks Aki.

It works now. Not sure what it was.

In Postfix’s master.cf changed the user in the dovecot line.

Also changed dovecot/auth-userdb user and group, and permissions.

Anyway, all works now. 

Thanks again,

James.