[Dovecot] dovecot lda - Permission denied

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Oct 29 17:20:15 EET 2012


On 26.10.2012, at 14.44, tony.blue.mailinglist at gmx.de wrote:

> Oct 25 23:37:13 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=501(andy) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
> ...
> Oct 25 23:37:14 gustav dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(tony) egid=100(users) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755)
> ...
> 
> Dovecot is installed as !include auth-passwdfile.conf.ext. For all users there is a entry in der /etc/dovecot/users.
> 
> Usaly the user rights are set to 600. I tryed 755, but I get the same errormessage.

0755 is basically the same as 0600 for sockets, since you disabled writes for others. Use 0777 to give everyone permissions.




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