Dovecot-lda permission errors or maybe authentication errors?

[Robert Kryger]

Output of ls -nal /home/user1:

total 156
drwx------.  6 524 524  4096 Nov  5 08:27 .
drwxr-xr-x. 34   0   0  4096 Oct  4 14:06 ..
-rw-------.  1 524 524  1148 Oct 15 13:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524    18 Sep 25 22:13 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524   176 Sep 25 22:13 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524   124 Sep 25 22:13 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0  1362 Nov  4 08:45 config.txt
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524    75 Oct  6 11:39 .forward_old
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0    37 Oct 26 19:09 .forward_test_lda
-rw-------.  1 524 524    55 Oct 12 20:12 .lesshst
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0  1062 Nov  4 08:50 log1.log
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0  1246 Nov  4 08:49 log2.log
drwxrw----. 35 524 524  4096 Nov  5 08:24 Maildir
drwxr-----. 35   0   0  4096 Oct 29 09:03 Maildirsave
drwxr-xr-x.  4 524 524  4096 May  6  2014 .mozilla
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524    92 Oct 12 20:20 .procmailrc
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524  1213 Oct  5 19:56 .procmailrc_old
-rw-r--r--.  1 524 524    92 Oct  6 10:27 .procmailrc_old2
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0     0 Nov  5 08:27 question1.txt
drwx------.  2 524 524  4096 Oct 14 16:02 .ssh
-rw-rw-r--.  1 524 524   152 Oct  6 10:25 testmessage.txt
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 524 524    87 Oct  6 13:59 testscript
-rw-rw-r--.  1 524 524 60810 Oct 27 16:57 top.log
-rw-r--r--.  1   0   0     6 Nov  4 08:45 version.txt
-rw-------.  1 524 524  3973 Oct 27 16:58 .viminfo

-----Original Message-----
From: Steffen Kaiser [mailto:skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 5:26 AM
To: Robert Kryger
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: Dovecot-lda permission errors or maybe authentication errors?

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Robert Kryger wrote:

> I have tried to specify the dovecot-lda in two ways.  First, in the 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf file:
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$SENDER" -a 
> "$RECIPIENT"
>
> or alternatively, I leave the mailbox_command blank and specify the 
> following in the .forward file of a test user:
>
> | "/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda"
>
> Either approach gives me the same error(s).  When a mail message is 
> sent to the test user USER1, the following errors appear in the 
> dovecot-lda error
> file:
>
> Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error: chdir(/home/user1/) failed: 
> Permission denied (euid=524(user1) egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No 
> such file or directory, euid is not dir owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
Error:
> chdir(/home/user1) failed: Permission denied Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
> Error: user user1: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.':
> stat(/home/user1/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=524(user1)
> egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or directory, euid is not 
> dir
> owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer 
> to server log for more information.
>
> Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Error: chdir(/home/user1/) failed: 
> Permission denied (euid=524(user1) egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No 
> such file or directory, euid is not dir owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
Error:
> chdir(/home/user1) failed: Permission denied Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1):
> Error: user user1: Initialization failed: Namespace 'INBOX.':
> stat(/home/user1/Maildir) failed: Permission denied (euid=524(user1)
> egid=524(user1) stat() failed: No such file or directory, euid is not 
> dir
> owner) Nov 04 08:47:29 lda(user1): Fatal: Invalid user settings. Refer 
> to server log for more information.
>
> At first, I interpreted this to mean the file permissions were not set 
> correctly on the home directory or the Maildir folder.  However, I 
> have opened these up to full rwx access for everyone and I still get 
> the same errors.  Alternatively, perhaps this is related somehow to 
> the dovecot-lda authentication process via the password or user 
> databases, but I can't make any sense of the documentation.

What's the output of:

ls -nal /home/user1

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Steffen Kaiser
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