[Dovecot] Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

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. Or if the 
above is an exact message from log, it's not created by Dovecot.