[Dovecot] Re: Possible bug: why is the owner of home-directory important?

[Qweb - Yavuz Aydin]

Dear all,

After reading over my previous post, I realised that the owner of the
home-directory is not important, but the permissions are. If I change the
ownership of the home-directory to the user, and let the chmod still be 
750, it
still doesn't work, so there must be a problem with the permissions. So the
subject of my post is not correct, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

-- 
Best regards,

Yavuz Aydin
Qweb Internet Services


Citeren Qweb - Yavuz Aydin <yavuz at qweb.nl>:

> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to migrate one of our systems to dovecot. We were using 
> uw-imapd in
> black-box-mode before. Since the home-directory of a user is not unique per
> definition on our systems, we have kind of a different setup.
>
> As an example:
> I got a user, let's say user1. It's home directory is
> /local/web/websites/5850844095/www. This directory has the following
> permissions:
> # ls -la /local/web/websites/5850844095/|grep www
> drwxr-x---   7 www-data g5850844095 4096 Oct 13 12:28 www
>
> (user1 is member of the group g5850844095)
>
> Why is logging in not working properly? See:
> # telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK dovecot ready.
> 1 LOGIN user1 password
> 1 OK Logged in.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> And in the logfile I see:
> Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: chdir(/local/web/websites/5850844095/www) failed
> with uid 1020: Permission denied
> Oct 13 13:09:47 s1 dovecot: child 1527 (imap) returned error 89
>
> However, when I change the permissions on the home-dir to 755, it works. The
> point is, none of my mailboxes (INBOX or others) are in my home-dir, so why
> does dovecot need my home-directory?
>
> I hope someone can help.
>
> PS1 the default_mail_env reads:
> default_mail_env = mbox:/local/mail/imap/%u/:INBOX=/local/mail/spool/%u
>
> PS2 This is on a Debian Sarge (3.1) system.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Yavuz Aydin
> Qweb Internet Services