dovecot - Jul 2005 - Dovecot without a chroot

Hi all,

We're running dovecot without a chroot (mail admin's request), but
we're
running it as a non-priv'd user with proper firewall setup.  Does this 
seem to be an OK and average setup?  Or is it considered a MUST to chroot 
something like the imapd daemon, etc.

Thanks!

-Matt

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:14 -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
> We're running dovecot without a chroot (mail admin's request), but
we're
> running it as a non-priv'd user with proper firewall setup.  Does this 
> seem to be an OK and average setup?  Or is it considered a MUST to chroot 
> something like the imapd daemon, etc.
It's not a "must", and it's not really even a
"should" since it can have
problems. Dovecot's login process should be kept chrooted though, and it
is by default.

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