[Dovecot] Correct permissions for base_dir??

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 19:42 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > Oct 21 16:33:18 lda: Error: userdb lookup:
> > connect(/opt/dovecot2/var/run/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied
> > (euid=26(mailnull) egid=26(mailnull) missing +r perm:
> > /opt/dovecot2/var/run/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner)
>
> It's not complaining about base_dir's permissions, but auth-userdb
> socket's permissions. See:
>
> 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 =
>  }
>
> Maybe you want to set "user = vmail" or something.
>
>
>
Thanks Timo!

Problem solved.

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Damn!!