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

Dieter Knopf dieterknopf at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 20 19:26:05 EEST 2010


2010/9/20 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> No, it's trying to open it as the mail user, and above shows that it's
> vmail. So make the socket accessible to vmail:
>
> service auth {
>  unix_listener auth-userdb {
>    user = vmail
>  }
> }

Thanks for the tipp, i added this (again) and still have the error :(
I tested with with group=vmail too. (and restarted after it).

It worked fine after i changed the permissions manually (chmod), but
this can't be the solution :(


2010-09-20 18:22:50 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)

Thanks


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