[Dovecot] Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Jerry wrote:

> Oct 04 08:08:41 deliver(user at mydomain.net): Error: userdb lookup:  
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied
>
> This is the file listing:
>
> srw-------   1 root  wheel       0B Oct  4 07:23 auth-master=

Give it more permissions.

>  socket:
>    type: listen
>    client:
>      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
>      mode: 432
>    master:
>      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>      mode: 384

mode = 0666 if nothing else helps.