Cool.  I'll try that.  Can I use the courier user I set up to be the
user under which POP3D runs (which otherwise has no perms across the
entire machine)?

I guess it goes without saying that my users will have no UNIX accounts
on the machine (forgot to add that into the last message, just in case
it was germaine).

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:03, Jay Lee wrote:
> Eric N. Valor said:
> > authenticate <user>: uid=0, gid=0 (zero uid or gid not permitted)
> > Jul  2 12:46:32 <host> pop3d: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
> 
> > I'm guessing I missed something in the documentation, but I'm not sure
> > what.  Googling the error message returns nothing.
> 
> Your LDAP directory does not seem to contain Unix UID / GID information
> for your users.  Create a user on the Courier server such as vmail.  Edit
> /etc/courier/authldaprc and comment out the LDAP_UID and LDAP_GID lines
> and uncomment add two lines that look like this:
> 
> LDAP_GLOB_UID  vmail
> LDAP_GLOB_GID  vmail
> 
> note that according to Sam, you should use the actually UID/GID number
> here instead of just vmail.  Look in /etc/passwd and /etc/groups to see
> what your system assigned for vmail.  However, I've just been using the
> vmail here without issue.  All of your Maildir's and user's home
> directories must be owned by vmail.vmail.  Something like this should do
> the trick:
> 
> chown -R vmail.vmail /path/to/maildirs
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> Jay
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