[Dovecot] auth_passdb using MySQL fails at starup

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 16:46 -0600, Josh Joslyn wrote:
> I've got dovecot v0.99.14, MySql 4.1.11 and postfix on fedora core 4… 
> when using uxix socket I get:  
> dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database vmail: Can't connect to
> local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)
..
> Dovecot error message lacks the reason it can not connect - unless the
> (13) means anything to anybody??? 

The error is given by Mysql library itself. 13 probably means EACCES
error, which suggests that you have SELinux enabled but configured not
to allow dovecot-auth to connect to Mysql.

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