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

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 03/24/2014 04:14 AM, Simon wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Simon <greminn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>  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?
>>
> 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! :)
> 

Please don't top-post...

Some ideas:

1) Show full output of 'doveconf -n'
2) How do permissions of the socket look like? Show full output of 'ls
-al /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/'
3) Do you use SElinux or some other access control system? Any output in
syslog/kernel logging?

Tom


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