[Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0 auth socket error

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 01:11 -0700, Tim Traver wrote:
>
> > Now, from what I can tell, this is complaining that the socket doesn't
> > have write permission for the group, because it is owned by root and
> > created with only 600 permissions...I can chmod the file to add the rw
> > for the group, and then it appears to start working ok, but if I stop
> > and start dovecot, it will only re-create those files with the 600
> > permissions...
>
> example-config/conf.d/10-master.conf:
>
> service auth {
>  # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically
>  # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Its default
>  # permissions make it readable only by root, but you may need to relax
> these
>  # permissions. Users that have access to this socket are able to get a
> list
>  # of all usernames and get results of everyone's userdb lookups.
>  unix_listener auth-userdb {
>    #mode = 0600
>    #user =
>    #group =
>  }
> ..
>
>
>
How do I upgrade from beta4 to beta6?? Some option to merge configs easily?



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