[Slackbuilds-users] Missing user 'dovenull' for Dovecot

[Rob McGee]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 04:20:25PM -0500, Alan Hicks wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:26:45 +0100
> Andreas Vögele <andreas at andreasvoegele.com> wrote:
> > On 10.02.2013 07:06, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> > > I'm currently fiddling with Postfix and Dovecot from SBo 
> > > (thanks Alan Hicks!) and everything works fine so far.
> > > 
> > > Out of the box, Dovecot seems to miss a 'dovenull' user besides 
> > > the 'dovecot' user and group. [...]
> > 
> > I stumbled upon this too. The 'dovenull' user is listed in 
> > http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt but it isn't mentioned in the 
> > SlackBuild's README.
> 
> I don't remember what the dovenull user is used for. IIRC some one 

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserIds

> else pushed out an add-on for dovecot at one time that might have 
> required a dovenull user. I don't believe dovecot itself requires 
> one. The following is taken from my personal mail server which runs 
> dovecot for IMAP.
> 
> alan at barnowl:~$ grep dove /etc/passwd
> dovecot:x:202:202::/dev/null:/bin/false
> 
> Since I myself don't have the dovenull user and the script itself 
> doesn't look for that user in any fashion, I'm pretty certain that 
> this was part of some other add-on or plugin at one time.

The default_login_user setting, "dovenull", should definitely exist 
for a Dovecot 2.x install. Compare with:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds

This did not exist in 1.x.
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    Rob McGee - /dev/rob0 - rob0 at slackbuilds.org