[Dovecot] auth default : passwd-file Can't open file: Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:07 -0600, Freese Notis wrote:

> I'm attempting to migrate from an existing dovecot .99 install to dovecot
> 1.0.rc15 on a fresh up to date CentOs 5.1.  I'm not sure what's causing this
> permissions error on startup - I've tried 777,644, and 600 chmods but it's
> always this same error:
> 
> Feb  1 12:43:06 ns2 dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file
> /var/spool/virtual/passwd: Can't open file: Permission denied
..
> I tried searching first but couldn't find anything other than similar config
> examples that seemed to confirm my config was setup right.  Any suggestions?

SELinux prevents accessing it.

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