On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > On 2010-05-15 11:59 AM, vus...@test123.ru wrote: >> I am trying to follow http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Rootless to set up >> a personal dovecot server that does not use 'root' and does not need >> to change uids/gids. I'm trying to set it up on a Cygwin personal >> system. > > You need to follow the directions found there then. > > Your config is missing stuff from the 'The important settings to change > for rootless installation are:" section...
So I played around with this suggestion and came across the following issues: 1) The sample config has an invalid directive. 'ssl_disable' is not valid. I'm assuming that 'ssl = no' is the same as 'ssl_disable = yes'. If I can get confirmation of that, I'll update the wiki if no one else does. 2) If I set the 'user' and 'auth_user' fields to my own login, it works fine (or at least passes 'dovecot -n'. If I set it to the 'cyg_server' user I get the error message about not being able to use the same user. I'm not really clear on the logic used to determine when a user can or can not be used for both. Is there an explanation of this so I can design my layout accordingly? I tried 'first_valid_uid = 1' to see if it would help, did not. cyg_server is already UID 1005 though, so didn't really expect it to. Jason