dovecot - Nov 2011 - seting acl for master user?

Hello!

I'm sorry, but i don't really understand it the way it is written in the
wiki, so i'm trying my luck here =)
i followed the wiki for creating a master user (the non-sql-version) and i can
login as another user via this master user.
my dovecot version is 1.2.9 on an ubuntu server 10.4.3 lts.

what i don't get is the acl-setting, so that the master-user can access all
the other users mails and folders.
i made the changes in the dovecot.conf as written in the wiki:
protocol imap {
  mail_plugins = acl imap_acl
}
protocol lda {
  mail_plugins = sieve acl
}
plugin {
  acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls
}

in my case I only want the master user (called cyrus) to be able to do
everything with/in all mailboxes, so I made a file /etc/dovecot/acls/default
that reads "user=cyrus lrwstipekxa".

i'm pretty sure i'm missing something rather obvious here, but somehow
i'm just stuck. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance =)

silvana
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Am 18.11.2011 14:34, schrieb oni-neko at gmx.net:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm sorry, but i don't really understand it the way it is written
in the wiki, so i'm trying my luck here =)
> i followed the wiki for creating a master user (the non-sql-version) and i
can login as another user via this master user.
> my dovecot version is 1.2.9 on an ubuntu server 10.4.3 lts.
> 
> what i don't get is the acl-setting, so that the master-user can access
all the other users mails and folders.
> i made the changes in the dovecot.conf as written in the wiki:
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = acl imap_acl
> }
> protocol lda {
>   mail_plugins = sieve acl
> }
> plugin {
>   acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls
> }
> 
> in my case I only want the master user (called cyrus) to be able to do
everything with/in all mailboxes, so I made a file /etc/dovecot/acls/default
that reads "user=cyrus lrwstipekxa".
> 
> i'm pretty sure i'm missing something rather obvious here, but
somehow i'm just stuck. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in
advance =)
> 
> silvana
are you sure that you dont mixed up master users with acl

normally you use master user like described here

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers

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On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 14:34 +0100, oni-neko at gmx.net wrote:
> what i don't get is the acl-setting, so that the master-user can
> access all the other users mails and folders.
..
> in my case I only want the master user (called cyrus) to be able to do
> everything with/in all mailboxes, so I made a
> file /etc/dovecot/acls/default that reads "user=cyrus
lrwstipekxa".
Unfortunately currently there is no default ACL file. The above would
create an ACL file for a mailbox called "default". I'll need to
get the
default ACLs implemented some day..

But if you don't need ACLs for anything else, you can simply disable the
ACL plugin and the master user will have access to everything. If you do
need ACLs, there are some kludges you can still do.