[Dovecot] Dovecot on FC3 with Active Directory authentication

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 16 18:25:00 EEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:28 -0700, Jeff Ramsey wrote:
> /etc/pam.d/ssh, /etc/pam.d/login, and /etc/pam.d/gdm all have a line  
> calling mkhomedir.so, which is using the /etc/skel home directory  
> skeleton to create the user's home dir upon successful login,  
> however, when I add that line to /etc/pam.d/dovecot, I get a  
> permission denied error in /var/log/maillog. I'm assuming this is  
> because dovecot is running as the user at this point, 

No. PAM calls are made by dovecot-auth process, and it runs as auth_user
specified in config file. Have you changed that to be non-root? Another
reason why it could be denied is because of SELinux if you have it
enabled.
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