[Dovecot] Permission denied after dist-upgrade

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 16 18:44:38 EET 2011


On 16.2.2011, at 18.30, Thomas Skowron wrote:

> Am 16.02.2011 um 17:01 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> 
>> 
>> Weirdness 1: So there's <unknown> even though 5000 uid and gid exists?
>> 
>> Weirdness 2: stat() fails with ENOENT.
>> 
>> Do you have SELinux or something enabled?
>> 
> 
> Well, it exists, but I got absolutely no idea why that happens.
> I haven't even typed in uid 5000 within the config file - it contains only the username 'vmail'. So dovecot is able to translate vmail to uid 5000, but not uid 5000 to user vmail.
> 
> SELinux	has never been enabled.

Another thing I thought of was chrooting, but I don't see any chrooting in your config.

Maybe you could find out something interesting by starting Dovecot with "strace -f -o log dovecot".



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