I have a solution to my problem.
For reference, I am putting it here :
I recall that my issue is that postfix authorises login with root
(or other users), even though authentication is delegated to
dovecot, and the documentation about {first,last}_valid_{g,u}id
seems to say that is should
Hello everyone,
From what I understand of the documentation, it is impossible to
log in to the dovecot server as root, or as any user not in the
interval between first_valid_uid and last_valid_uid.
I have been able to verify this.
However, when we have a postfix server on the same machine,
Le mardi 14 mars 2023 à 22:32, dove...@ptld.com a écrit :
However, when we have a postfix server on the same machine,
that delegates authentication to dovecot SASL ... we can indeed
log in as root on the postfix server.
You are not logging into Dovecot with root, you are connecting
to
