[Dovecot] default Dovecot-LDA CHGRP/CHMOD

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Nov 15 22:34:21 EET 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 14:04 -0500, Chris Young wrote:
> I am familiar with this article
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#multipleuids
> 
> I want to disable setuid-root, but I don't know the default group and
> permissions.
> 
> sudo chgrp root /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda
> sudo chmod 00750 /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda
> 
> but my delivery is still failing
> 
> Nov  9 18:22:39 vl42 postfix/pipe[23039]: DEC54700B1: to=<user at domain.com>,
> orig_to=<user at domain.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0/0/0.01,
> dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: pipe: fatal:
> pipe_command: execvp /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda: Permission denied )

dovecot-lda's group should be the same as you specify to the pipe in
Postfix's master.cf.




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