I meant _setuid_ root, not owner root. You better lookup what this means on google before doing it.
Reread the instructions on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA (section Multiple UIDs). Set the group of the directory deliver is in to the same user that postfix will use to run deliver. (You appear to be using 'mail'). See the manual page of chmod to know how to set a program setuid root. Alexander Gert Cuykens wrote: > but deliver is already root ? > > and master is set as > > master { > path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > mode = 0600 > user = mail > group = mail > } > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 563112 2008-03-31 21:05 /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > i am sorry i dont understand what i need to do ? > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Alexander Prinsier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Install it setuid root as described here http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA. >> >> Alexander >> >> >> >> Gert Cuykens wrote: >> > How can i give lda dovecot permision to set user and goup id to 5001 >> > >> > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe >> > flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} >> > -d ${recipient} >> >>
