[Dovecot] failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001 (solved)

[Jürgen Herrmann]

On Wed, November 18, 2009 19:31, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:12 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:
>> On Wed, November 18, 2009 17:29, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:17 +0100, Jürgen Herrmann wrote:
>> >> 2009-11-18 16:04:24 dovecot: Fatal: chdir(/home/mail_virtual/2001) failed:
>> >>       Permission denied (euid=2001 egid=2001 stat(/home/mail_virtual/2001)
>> >>       failed: Permission denied missing +w perm: /home/mail_virtual/2001)
>> >
>> > so "ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001" actually shows that the owner and
>> > group is 2001?
>>
>> app3:~# ls -dln /home/mail_virtual/2001
>> drwx------ 4 2001 2001 4096 18. Nov 13:59 /home/mail_virtual/2001
>
> What about /home and /home/mail_virtual's permissions? Is this on NFS or
> local filesystem?
>
> In any case kernel is telling Dovecot that chdir() failed with
> permission denied..
>
setup was:
/mnt is root.root 755
/mnt/nfs-backup1 is a mountpoint for nfs
/home/mail_virtual is a symlink -> /mnt/nfs-backup1

/mnt/nfs-backup1 was root.root 705, which caused the problems,
setting it to 755 solved those problems.

regards, jürgen
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