On 2015-05-03, Markus Rosjat <ros...@ghweb.de> wrote:
> Am 03.05.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Stuart Henderson:
>> On 2015-05-02, Markus Rosjat <ros...@ghweb.de> wrote:
>>> okay it seems dovecot runs root and not as the _dovecot user so applying
>>> a login class for the dovecote group only helps if you add root to it
>>> and nor it seems to start properly.
>> How are you starting Dovecot? The login class mechanism is only used
>> when started with rcctl or /etc.rc.d/dovecot.
> I enabled it with rcctl but like I said when I ps -aux use I get the
> info that the process is owned by root. So to fix the problem with teh
> open files I had to add root to _dovecot group to add the login class
> behaviour.
This doesn't make sense. The rc.d script (via rc.subr) uses su -c (class)
when starting a daemon, it doesn't matter which uid is running it...
The only time where I think root's login class should make a difference
is if you start it by hand without using -c ("sudo dovecot" or similar).
