Re: Mail server upgrade

Monday, 6 December 2004

Am Mo, den 06.12.2004 schrieb Paul Michael Reilly um 7:19:

...
 > Keep care to preserve the UIDs/GIDs of your system user
accounts. Else
 > you will have to change ownerships by hand on the spool mboxes.
 > Yes, following all advices from the dovecot Wiki will bring you safe
 > from point A to point B.

 I think something has changed to tighten the constraints on UID values 
 below 500.  I have accounts with UIDs below 500 who are not receiving 
 mail whereas others are.  Can you point me at some explanation for this 
 behavior and recommended remedies? 
...
 -pmr 
Paul,

I am not sure whether I understand you correctly. You say your system
has created user accounts with UID below 500? I guess you created user
account in that UID area, right? Correct me if I am wrong. And you are
saying that you have accounts which should be able to receive mail while
they don't? Maybe I understand you better if you rephrase a bit what you
mean and give some real world examples from your host(s).

freshrpms.net has a page which lists UIDs used on Redhat / Fedora
systems:

http://freshrpms.net/packages/res/uidgid.html

Other Linux distributions handles UID numbers differently.

Alexander

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