Re: dovecot.list.index.log owned by root: why?
"Stefan G. Weichinger via dovecot" <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:36:09 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.imap.dovecot |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Am 01.04.26 um 12:24 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>> That's very strange. It's not even supposed to be possible to
>> configure Dovecot in a way that it writes to these files as root.
>> If you look at your logs, can you see what process wrote these
>> files at the time? imap, lmtp? Also what's your full doveconf -n
>> output?
Seems you looked up my posting of the config from yesterday?
great
> Looking at your earlier mail, I see there is quota-status service,
> which apparently can run as root in some situations. So it's
> possibly somehow related to that, although I'm still not sure how
> that can happen.
Oh, didn't expect to create something that special ;-)
> Also does the problem go away if you simplify your config to:
>
> mail_uid = 1001 mail_gid = 1001
>
> passdb_sql_query = SELECT username as user, password FROM mailbox
> WHERE username = '%{user}' AND active = '1' userdb_sql_query =
> SELECT username as user FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%{user}' AND
> active = '1'
Will try, but I am cautious: wouldn't I need userdb_home and userdb_mail
also in my query?
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