> > Im sorry to ask another basic question, but Ive tried to find this > answer for several hours now and it eludes me. Im getting the following > when dovecot tries to deliver an email: > > May 6 19:29:21 mydomain dovecot: lda: Debug: auth input: jeff > home=/opt/imapdata/j/jeff/INBOX uid=1001 gid=999 > May 6 19:29:21 mydomain dovecot: lda(jeff): Fatal: setgid(999(vmail) from > userdb lookup) failed with euid=999(vmail), gid=500(jeff), egid=500(jeff): > Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process > group set to 999(vmail) instead of 500(jeff)) > > I cannot seem to find where its trying to call dovecot-lda with uid(jeff) at? > AFAIK Ive set everything up to use/deliver as 'vmail'. 'jeff' is the only > person on this > box with a unix account which is uid 500, but how do I make it use vmail > instead? >
I forgot to show my dovecot-lda, it seems correct and its setuid as well: -rwsr-x--x 1 vmail vmail 75789 Apr 28 08:15 dovecot-lda* Anyone? I seem to be in permissions hell trying to set things up. Thank you /mf/home/jeep/shell/.signature
