On 2011-09-19 7:22 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
If the root user is receiving emails, these need to be redirected to
another user so they can be read via IMAP.
I guess the source needs a patch.
Only if you like wasting your time.
Why would dovecot choose to play nursemaid to people who want to
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:49:23 +1000, Alex wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:50:32 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 20.9.2011, at 2.22, Linda Walsh wrote:
I can log in via SSH, so why not allow it with secure IMAP? I
suppose
really, if someone wants to run as root with no password dovecot
should be
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:50:32 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 20.9.2011, at 2.22, Linda Walsh wrote:
I can log in via SSH, so why not allow it with secure IMAP? I
suppose
really, if someone wants to run as root with no password dovecot
should be
**configurable** to allow this -- as we can't al
On 09/20/2011 01:22 AM Linda Walsh wrote:
> I guess the source needs a patch.
>
> Why would dovecot choose to play nursemaid to people who want to read
> root email remotely via IMAPS?
> …
So, why do you not simply create and apply the patch? Dovecot is OSS.
You are free to modify it
On 20.9.2011, at 2.22, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I can log in via SSH, so why not allow it with secure IMAP? I suppose
> really, if someone wants to run as root with no password dovecot should be
> **configurable** to allow this -- as we can't always understand the needs
> of end users.
Because ther
John Allen wrote:
As far as I recall, IMAP servers generally don't allow access to root.
According to the Dovecot wiki, this is hard-coded in the binary:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig see under "first_valid_uid"
If the root user is receiving emails, these need to be redirected to
anoth
As far as I recall, IMAP servers generally don't allow access to root.
According to the Dovecot wiki, this is hard-coded in the binary:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig
see under "first_valid_uid"
If the root user is receiving emails, these need to be redirected to another
user so they can be
On 09/10/2011 10:04 AM jana1...@centrum.cz wrote:
> Hi i use Dovecot and it works ok for users except for root user.
> It is impossible to login as root
> Here is a log
> …
> Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Error: user root: Invalid settings in userdb: userdb
> returned 0 as uid
> Sep 10 10:15:44 imap: Er
Hi i use Dovecot and it works ok for users except for root user.
It is impossible to login as root
Here is a log
Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory:
/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth
Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=18077)
Sep 10 10:15:44 auth: Debug:
