Mercurial > dovecot > original-hg > dovecot-1.2
changeset 435:06576f1d9e69 HEAD
doc updates
author | Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> |
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date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:35:14 +0300 |
parents | e58a36e61d33 |
children | 8a252e6567d7 |
files | doc/configuration.txt dovecot-example.conf |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/configuration.txt Wed Oct 16 00:25:15 2002 +0300 +++ b/doc/configuration.txt Wed Oct 16 00:35:14 2002 +0300 @@ -130,5 +130,5 @@ set up special chroot environment). Anyway, doing it is easy. configure --prefix=$HOME, make install, change -login_user and auth_user in dovecot.conf to your user id and use -passwd-file authentication. +login_user and auth_user in dovecot.conf to your user id, disable all +chrooting and use passwd-file authentication.
--- a/dovecot-example.conf Wed Oct 16 00:25:15 2002 +0300 +++ b/dovecot-example.conf Wed Oct 16 00:35:14 2002 +0300 @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file # Default values are shown after each value, it's not required to uncomment -# any of the lines. +# any of the lines. Exception to this are paths, they're just examples +# with real defaults being based on configure options. The paths listed here +# are for configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var # Port to listen in for IMAP connections. This port is used for TLS # connections as well. Setting it to 0 disables it. @@ -18,7 +20,8 @@ # to imap_listen if not specified. #imaps_listen = -# SSL certificate/key, they're opened as root +# SSL certificate/key, they're opened as root. Note that these default paths +# are absolute, configure options don't affect them. #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imapd.pem #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/imapd.pem @@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ # root, so you don't need to give imap-auth any access for it. #login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login -# chroot() imap-login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this +# chroot imap-login process to the login_dir. Only reason not to do this # is if you wish to run the whole imapd without roots. #login_chroot = yes @@ -147,13 +150,14 @@ auth_userinfo = pam # Executable location -#auth_executable = /var/lib/dovecot/imap-auth +#auth_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-auth # User to use for the process. Only shadow and pam authentication requires # roots, so use something else if possible. auth_user = root -# Directory where to chroot the process +# Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't +# work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. #auth_chroot = # Number of authentication processes to create