[Dovecot] Homedir permissions problems with LDAP

["Fábio M. Catunda"]

Hi,

I fixed the problem changing the place where folders stay from
location = maildir:~/...
to
location = maildir:/var/virtual/%d/%n/...

Thankz!

Fábio M. Catunda escreveu:
> Sorry, my previous message entered like a reply, so I'm sending again 
> to keep the list in order.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using dovecot 1.0.5-1 (debian stable) and I'm trying to build a 
> virtual host machine with ldap.
>
> In my dovecot-ldap.conf thats what I have:
>
> uris = ldap://<ldapserver>/
> dn = cn=Manager, dc=domain, dc=com, dc=br
> dnpass = <ultra secret passwd>
> sasl_bind = no
> tls = no
> ldap_version = 3
> base = ou=Users, dc=domain, dc=com, dc=br
> deref = never
> scope = subtree
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=homeDirectory
> user_filter = (&(mail=%u))
> pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password
> pass_filter = (&(mail=%u))
> default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
> user_global_uid = 107
> user_global_gid = 109
>
> But I don't want to read homeDirectory from LDAP, so I have the 
> following in dovecot.conf
> mail_location = maildir:/var/virtual/%d/%n/
>
> The question is when I try to log into imap I receive the following 
> error:
>
> dovecot: 2008-01-03 10:03:55 Error: IMAP(magalhaes at fmcs.com.br): 
> mkdir(/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/expunged/cur) 
> failed: Permission denied
> dovecot: 2008-01-03 10:03:55 Error: IMAP(magalhaes at fmcs.com.br): 
> mkdir(/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/deleted/cur) 
> failed: Permission denied
> dovecot: 2008-01-03 10:03:55 Error: IMAP(magalhaes at fmcs.com.br): 
> mkdir(/HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB/deleted/expunged/cur) 
> failed: Permission denied
>
> (I'm using lazy_expunge too)
>
> I can log in and etc, but this is strange for me, why do I receive 
> this Permission denied message?
>
> The directory /var/virtual/<domain>/<user>/ is owned by uid 107 and 
> gid 109, so, i believe thats ok.
>
> My homedir in ldap is /home/samba/<user> , so I changed tried to chown 
> 107:109 too but I still get this error.
>
> Is there a way for me to know what is the full path that dovecot is 
> trying to use?  HOME_DIRECTORY_USED_BUT_NOT_GIVEN_BY_USERDB is no 
> helping me too much!
>
> Oh, I imagine that my lazy_expunge conf may be helpfull:
>
> namespace private {
> prefix = .EXPUNGED/
> separator = /
> location = maildir:~/expunged
> hidden = yes
> }
> namespace private {
> prefix = .DELETED/
> separator = /
> location = maildir:~/deleted
> hidden = yes
> }
> namespace private {
> prefix = .DELETED/.EXPUNGED/
> separator = /
> location = maildir:~/deleted/expunged
> hidden = yes
> }
>
> Thanks for all!
>
>