[Dovecot] Help needed: Index filesystem permissions problem after switch to V1.2 and back to V1.1

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Stewart Dean wrote:

Hello,

> In desperation I changed the permissions on /var/dcindx with a chmod o+x so 
> that it is now:
> drwx--S--x
> which quieted that avalanche of error message.  Still, what *should* the 
> permissions and ownership be?

There is no default answer for this question, except: so that all uids 
used are able to create directories under /var/dcindex .

E.g. if all your users are mapped to one uid, you may use this uid.

If you use system users, who are all member of one group, have "g+xw" and 
chgrp /var/dcindex to this group as well.

Your error message seem to indicate, that you should use:

1777

as for /tmp, because you have a range of uids and gids.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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