Reminder: Possible to specify local repository ownership?

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

In the Unix world that's a job for "su".

  > man su


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 08:02:50PM +0300, mikek at openforall.com wrote:
>    Hello and thanks for your answer.
>    What I want is: to run offlineIMAP as root in order to get a user mail box
>    and to store it locally but I want to store it not as root:roo but instead
>    as vmail:vmail. I prefer to have this user and group specified at the
>    offlineIMAP and not to change ownership (user & group) afterwards.
>    What do you think?
>    Thanks.
> 
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>    From: Caleb <caleb at calebjay.com>
>    Sent: Thu Jul 16 19:36:48 GMT+03:00 2020
>    To: mikek at openforall.com, offlineimap-project at alioth-lists.debian.net
>    Subject: Re: Reminder: Possible to specify local repository ownership?
>    </caleb at calebjay.com>
>    Do you mean a user group for your operating system?
>    You can try stack overflow as well. 
> 
>    On July 16, 2020 4:03:28 AM mikek at openforall.com wrote:
> 
>      Dear Sirs,
>      Is anybody in this mailing list to guide me how can save the local
>      account offlineIMAP files with specified ownership in the form
>      user:group .
>      If this is not the proper place to ask this question, please indicate to
>      me were to ask.
> 
>      Thanks.
> 
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>      From: mikek at openforall.com
>      Sent: Tue Jul 14 20:39:21 GMT+03:00 2020
>      To: offlineimap-project at alioth-lists.debian.net
>      Subject: Possible to specify local repository ownership?
>      Dear Sirs,
>      Is there any supporting way to set user:group ownership in order to save
>      the maildir in the local repository using these pre specified? I don't
>      want to have root ownership, even if I run the offlineIMAP as root, also
>      I don't want to create separate user.
>      Thanks.
>      _______________________________________________
>      OfflineIMAP-project mailing list:
>      [1]OfflineIMAP-project at alioth-lists.debian.net
>      [2]https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project
>      OfflineIMAP homepages:
>      - [3]https://github.com/OfflineIMAP
>      - [4]http://offlineimap.org
> 
> References
> 
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>    2. https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project
>    3. https://github.com/OfflineIMAP
>    4. http://offlineimap.org/

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Nicolas Sebrecht