[Dovecot] Dovecot install problem

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon May 31 19:43:11 EEST 2010


On 2010-05-31 12:00 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On ma, 2010-05-31 at 11:57 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2010-05-31 11:36 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On su, 2010-05-30 at 14:04 -0400, David wrote:
>>>> passwd-file /var/mail/vhosts/xxxx.net/shadow: stat() failed:
>>>> Permission denied
>>
>>> According to your dovecot -n output auth process runs as root.
>>
>> ? I guess I'm blind Timo - how did you determine this?

> There is no "user" setting listed and default auth user is root.

>> I though the socket options user/group = postfix meant it was running as
>> user/group postfix?

> The socket settings only specify the socket's owner/group/permissions
> (so it's about what clients can connect to it). Hopefully v2.0's dovecot
> -n output is clearer in future. :)

Oh, right - duh... sorry for the noise...

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Best regards,

Charles


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