[Dovecot] Permission denied

[Charlie Brady]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 11:18 Europe/Helsinki, Jaime Medrano wrote:
> 
> > Dovecot is faulting on an error about permissions that it shouldn't do.
> >
> > I've got an user with its home dir with permissions 700, and inside the
> > mail directory with the mboxes.
> > In the error log I can see: 'Can't chdir to /home/user. Permission 
> > denied'
> >
> > I wonder why it has to chdir to that directory and why it can't access.
> > Shouldn't it be running as the user?
> 
> What is the exact error message? The only chdir() calls that I see are 
> done as root, so there shouldn't be any permission problems.

NFS mounted home directories with "root_quash" could cause that.

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Charlie