[Dovecot] permissions on auth-userdb Error: userdb lookup

[LEVAI Daniel]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:34:01 +0200, Dieter Knopf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> first sorry for this question. I already found many threads about this
> problem including a thread in this list from August 2010, but nothing
> helped :(
> 
> Here is the error:
> 2010-09-20 06:28:04 lda: Debug: Loading modules from directory:
> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/
> 2010-09-20 06:28:04 lda: Debug: Module loaded:
> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules//lib90_sieve_plugin.so
> 2010-09-20 06:28:04 lda: Error: userdb lookup:
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied
> (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm:
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner)
> 2010-09-20 06:28:04 lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to
> server log for more information.
> 
> srw-------  1 root    root       0 20. Sep 06:21 auth-userdb

Dovecot tries to open that file with the "default_internal_user" user,
which is configurable in dovecot.conf. See 
# doveconf -h default_internal_user
what is the current user for you.


Daniel

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