[Dovecot] dovecot permission denied problems.

[John Mc Donald]

Thanks,

That fixed it.

John.

maw at substantis.com wrote:

>Is SELinux enabled? To see if SE linux is enabled on your machine, su root
>and type:
>/usr/sbin/sestatus
>
>If it is enabled, then try testing after temporarily disabling SELinux by
>typing:
>setenforce=0
>
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>>I am trying to setup dovecot on a FC4 machine. Access to the machine is
>>provided through pam. When I login to the machine my home directory is
>>mounted over nfs from a central file server. I have dovecot installed
>>and running but it can't seem to access my home directory. When I try
>>and access my mail I get the following three lines in /var/log/maillog:
>>
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>>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher imap-login: Login: ######
>>>[::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: chdir(/home/######) failed with uid
>>>####: Permission denied
>>>Jul 25 12:46:04 escher dovecot: child 13182 (imap) returned error 89
>>>      
>>>
>>The uid that is used is the one associated with my home directory. As
>>far as I understand it when you connect to dovecot the imap connection
>>setuid's to the uid of the authenticated user so there should be no
>>permission problems.
>>
>>To try and help in the debugging process I also setup a local user
>>"testimap" using
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>>    
>>
>>>/usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp/testimap testimap
>>>      
>>>
>>I then try to use thunderbird to connect to it and I get the following
>>in /var/log/maillog
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap-login: Login: testimap
>>>[::ffff:###.###.###.###]
>>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): mbox: Can't create root IMAP
>>>folder /tmp/testimap/mail: Permission denied
>>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher imap(testimap): MAIL environment missing and
>>>autodetection failed (home /tmp/testimap)
>>>Jul 25 12:54:54 escher dovecot: child 13360 (imap) returned error 89
>>>      
>>>
>>Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
>>
>>TIA,
>>John.
>>
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>>John Mc Donald,
>>Dept. of Computer Science,
>>National University of Ireland,
>>Maynooth,
>>Co. Kildare,
>>Ireland.
>>
>>Email : johnmcd at cs.nuim.ie
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John Mc Donald,
Dept. of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.

Email : johnmcd at cs.nuim.ie
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