Permissions with mailman

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬 wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:49:14 -0700 Robert L Mathews <lists at tigertech.com> wrote:
>> On 7/3/14, 11:03 AM, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬 wrote:
>>
>>> Jul  2 15:29:39 blade01 dovecot: lda(list): Error: user list:
>>> Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
>>> setting failed: mkdir(/var/mail/vmail//list/mail) failed: Permission
>>> denied (euid=38(list) egid=38(list)
>>
>>> Now since dovecot is running as user vmail
>>
>> According to the error, it's not running as user vmail for this
>> delivery. It's running as uid/gid 38, "list".
>>
>> Look at how "lda" gets executed for this delivery to see why it's using
>> uid 38.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why it's using uid 38, but even so, the user list is in the
> group vmail and thus should be able to write to /var/mail/vmail.
> However it reports it's not in the group.
>
> => confused

is it possible that Dovecot cannot read /etc/group ?
Maybe you can strace the Dovecot LDA and see something in the trace.

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Steffen Kaiser
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