Unknown euid and egid, wrong mail directory

Michael Agbaglo byteshifter at shifted-bytes.de
Sun Jan 31 12:00:13 EET 2021


Even if this stuff is commented out the error persists.


On 30/01/2021 21.59, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On 30/01/2021 22:51 Michael Agbaglo <byteshifter at shifted-bytes.de> wrote:
>>
>>  
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> Trying to set up dovecot for local accounts and virtual users, sending
>> test mail fails: dovecot sees a permission problem in /home but the mail
>> should go to /srv/mail/example.net/alice.
>>
>> "euid=1001(<unknown>) egid=1001(<unknown>)" 1001 doesn't not exist in
>> /etc/passwd - Where does it come from?
>> passdb {
>>   driver = pam
>> }
>> userdb {
>>   driver = passwd
>> }
> Maybe these two are responsible for this?
>
> Aki



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