Hi all, I am getting the error where root is constantly being lookedup over imap I am guessing. I am pretty sure services like fail2ban and logwatch are setup to send from another user instead of root @ localhost so I think this may be an imap issue. I tried adding root to /etc/dovecot/deny-users , but this error still persists. I know imap as root is a big security issue and is disabled, but I cannot pinpoint how or why this is happening so often. I am using PAM and passwd for authentication and authorization.
How can I prevent root user from being looked up in the first place ? Regards, Michael dovecot[606167]: lmtp(606199): Error: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=606196,uid=73 [2]: rcpt root@<domain>: Failed to lookup user root@<domain>: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb returned 0 as uid replaced my domain name with <domain> in this example.
