On 1.3.2012, at 10.44, Joseph Tam wrote: > I would like to run various doveadm commands that involves all (mail) users > like > > doveadm expunge -A mailbox Trash savedbefore 30d > > but any doveadm command that uses "-A" to iterate through all users will > stop processing at the first account with UID<first_valid_uid. > > doveadm(sysdaemon): Error: user sysdaemon: Couldn't drop > privileges: Mail access for users with GID 5551 not permitted > (see first_valid_gid in config file, gid from userdb lookup). > doveadm(sysdaemon): Error: User init failed > doveadm: Error: Failed to iterate through some users > > However, these accounts are system accounts (locked password, no shell) > and are in userdb to provide UID<->name mapping for utilities like ls, > chown, etc.
What userdb are you using? userdb passwd should already skip users that aren't in the valid range. And what Dovecot version are you using?
