[Dovecot] Connection refused userdb lookup ..dovecot/auth-userdb

[Simon]

Hi All, Ive been googling the crap out of this but still cant seem to make
it work.. any assistance would be really appreciated thanks! :)

Simon

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Simon <greminn at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thursday, March 13, 2014, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Simon wrote:
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>>  Ive taken a look at this and cant quite figure out what is going on
>>> here. I have tested all the SQL permissions, and also changed the
>>> unix_listener auth-userdb mode to 0666 (as instructed elsewhere to try and
>>> solve this issue), but cannot seem to work out what the issue is.
>>>
>>
>> what happens if you connect to that socket manually, e.g.:
>>
>> # sudo -u <lda-user> socat - UNIX:/usr/local/dovecot/var/
>> run/dovecot/auth-userdb
>> VERSION 1       1
>> SPID    1746
>>
>> Maybe first try as root, then with the partucular users.
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply! I tried this as root and got the following:
>
> [root at vmail1 ~]# socat -
> UNIX:/usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> 2014/03/16 20:57:05 socat[24404] E connect(3, AF=1
> "/usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb", 48): Connection refused
>
> Seems a bit wierd that I can't connect as root?
>
> Simon
>