[Dovecot] More Dovecot 2.0 permissions issues

[Tim Traver]

Timo,

any thoughts on this one? is there a setting that I am missing for
ownership or permissions of the log files?

Thanks,

Tim.


On 6/18/2010 10:42 PM, Tim Traver wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> ok, using the latest 2.0beta6...
>
> I can't figure out the settings for the log file to have the correct
> permissions. When the log file is created, it is created owned by root
> and 0600 permissions, which doesn't allow the lda to write to it if I
> use different users and groups for that main config...
>
> If I then chmod the log file to 666, then everything is happy, but
> again, if that log file is removed and created by dovecot, it will
> create it back with 0600 and the lda will error and not deliver mail
> because of it...
>
> I was not able to find anywhere else to set the mode of the log files or
> the mask that is used...
>
> here is the current config :
>
> # 2.0.beta6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 i386
> auth_username_format = %Lu
> auth_username_translation = %@
> auth_verbose = yes
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> dotlock_use_excl = yes
> first_valid_uid = 100
> listen = *
> lock_method = dotlock
> log_path = /local/logs/dovecot.errors
> mail_gid = 100
> mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir
> mail_nfs_index = yes
> mail_nfs_storage = yes
> mail_uid = 100
> mmap_disable = yes
> passdb {
>   args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_auth
>   driver = checkpassword
> }
> plugin {
>   quota = maildir
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/Maildir/sieve
> }
> protocols = imap pop3 managesieve
> quota_full_tempfail = yes
> service auth {
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     mode = 0660
>   }
> }
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>   driver = prefetch
> }
> userdb {
>   args = /bin/checkpassword_dovecot_deliver
>   driver = checkpassword
> }
> verbose_proctitle = yes
> protocol pop3 {
>   pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
> }
> protocol lda {
>   mail_plugins = quota sieve
> }
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
> }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
>