[Dovecot] Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Saturday, Jul 12, 2003, at 11:13 Europe/Helsinki, Jaime Medrano 
wrote:

> That's the problem. The home dir is exported by nfs. Chdirs should be
> done as the user, not as root.

Right.. Well, I'll just ignore that error then:

Index: mail-process.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/master/mail-process.c,v
retrieving revision 1.25
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.25 -r1.26
--- mail-process.c      10 Jul 2003 03:04:07 -0000      1.25
+++ mail-process.c      12 Jul 2003 15:45:19 -0000      1.26
@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@
         if (*home_dir != '\0') {
                 full_home_dir = *chroot_dir == '\0' ? home_dir :
                         t_strconcat(chroot_dir, "/", home_dir, NULL);
-               if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0)
+               /* NOTE: if home directory is NFS-mounted, we might not
+                  have access to it as root. Ignore such errors. */
+               if (chdir(full_home_dir) < 0 && errno != EACCES)
                         i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", full_home_dir);
         }