permission denied

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Joe Reid wrote:

> The time stamp on the .subscriptions.lock file gets updated every time I try 
> to make a change.  To test I edited .subscriptions by hand and forced 
> Thunderbird to try to subscribe something and I got access to the folder I 
> added, so I presume it is reading the file correctly.
>
> Permissions on~jreid/mail is 0700, the existing .subscriptions file is 0640 
> and .subscriptions.lock file is 0600.  all the files are owned by me and 
> their group is my primary group (not mail).
>
> $ /opt/csw/bin/doveconf -n
> # 2.2.12: /etc/opt/csw/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: SunOS 5.11 i86pc
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> first_valid_uid = 100
> mail_access_groups = mail
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/share/mail/%u
[cut]
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }

> $ doveadm log errors
> [...]
> Aug 03 16:47:02 imap(jreid): Error: 
> rename(/home/jreid/mail/.subscriptions.lock, /home/jreid/mail/.subscriptions) 
> failed: Permission denied
> Aug 03 16:52:49 imap(jreid): Error: 
> rename(/home/jreid/mail/2012/.imap/Received/dovecot.index.log.newlock, 
> /home/jreid/mail/2012/.imap/Received/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission 
> denied

Who owns /home/jreid/mail, .subscriptions.lock file  and 
/home/jreid/mail/2012/.imap/Received ?

Please send a ls -la of /home/jreid/mail.

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Steffen Kaiser
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